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Celestial Dreaming in a Bit of Pipe Smoke
Zoom into the Pipe Nebula by using the zoom slider, or pan around the image by using the arrow icons…
Treasure Hunt for Cassini Reveals Tiny Moon Atlas
Saturn's tiny moon Atlas shines with the rings While most eyes on Earth have been focused on the Red Planet…
A 360-Degree ‘Street View’ From Mars
360-degree panoramic image of the Martian landscape surrounding NASA's Curiosity. Credit: Andrew Bodrov After seeing all the amazing imagery so…
Physicists Closing in on Understanding the Primordial Universe
Photo of the ALICE detector at CERN. Photo courtesy of CERN. Slamming barely nothing together is bringing scientists ever-closer to…
Zoom into an Ancient and Fractured Martian Landscape
Peer at this new image of Mars' Ladon Basin and you get some notion of the violence that took place…
A Crinkle in the Wrinkle of Space-time
Albert Einstein's revolutionary general theory of relativity describes gravity as a curvature in the fabric of spacetime. Mathematicians at University…
Oldest Spiral Galaxy in the Universe Discovered
Caption: An artist’s rendering of galaxy BX442 and its companion dwarf galaxy (upper left). Credit: Dunlap Institute for Astronomy &…
Stunning Starry Nights of Lincoln Harrison
[Spoiler] I guarantee that these spectacular swirls of color will have you wasting a good chunk of your Friday. But…
Dark Matter Filaments Bind Galaxies Together
A slim bridge of dark matter - just a hint of a larger cosmic skeleton - has been found binding…
Rethinking the Source of Earth’s Water
Earth, with its blue hue visible from space, is known for its abundant water - predominately locked in oceans -…