Nancy Atkinson
Apparently, This Nebula Looks Like Godzilla. Do you see it?
We’ve written often about how pareidolia -- the human tendency to see faces or other features in random images --…
Here’s the View From Sweden During the Recent Solar Storm
Vivid green and purple aurora swirled and danced across the entire night sky in Sweden recently. The nighttime light show…
NASA’s Mission to Visit 8 Asteroids, Lucy, Launches on October 16th
An early morning launch is planned for the Lucy spacecraft, the first space mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Tomorrow,…
The Biggest Comet Ever Seen Will get as Close as Saturn in 2031
A mega-comet – potentially the largest ever discovered – is heading from the Oort Cloud towards our direction. Estimated to…
Images of 42 of the Biggest Asteroids in the Solar System
A huge team of astronomers have combined forces to use the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) to…
Webb has Arrived Safely at the Launch Site
Whew! A major milestone was achieved today in the James Webb Space Telescope’s journey towards launch. After the telescope successfully…
‘Glowing’ Sand Dune Erosion on the Side of a Martian Crater
While Mars is known as the Red Planet, a variety of colors can be found on the planet’s surface. Just…
James Webb’s 30 Days of Terror
It’s been a long and winding road getting the James Webb Space Telescope from concept to reality. And finally, after…
Russian Actor and Filmmaker are On the Space Station to Shoot Scenes for a Film
Earlier this week, a Soyuz spacecraft launched to the International Space Station with three people on board. But only one…
NASA Spacecraft Takes a Picture of Jupiter … From the Moon
You know the feeling …. seeing Jupiter through your own telescope. If it gives you the chills -- like it…