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Best Space Photos Of 2014 Bring You Across The Solar System
Feel like visiting a dwarf planet today? How about a comet or the planet Mars? Luckily for us, there are…
Work Those Quads: Our Guide to the 2015 Quadrantid Meteors
Quick… what’s the only major meteor shower named after a defunct constellation? If you said the January Quadrantids, you’d be…
2015: NASA’s Year of the Dwarf Planet
Together, the space probes Dawn and New Horizons have been in flight for a collective 17 years. One remained close…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 362: Modern Women: Carolyn Porco
It hard to think of a more influential modern planetary scientist than Carolyn Porco, the leader of the imaging team…
Put Yourself in the Way of Beauty
Oh my, oh my. Rolando Ligustri captured this scene last night as Comet Q2 Lovejoy swished past the globular cluster…
Marvelous Moondance: Jupiter Satellites Caught Eclipsing And Transiting
On Christmas Eve, as millions upon millions of people focused on wrapping gifts and getting ready for the holidays, an…
Space-y Charity: Some Ideas To Respond To Astronaut Hadfield’s Challenge
While the world was enchanted with Chris Hadfield's social media posts last year, a new video has the retired astronaut…
Comet Q2 Lovejoy Loses Tail, Grows Another, Loses That One Too!
Maybe you've seen Comet Q2 Lovejoy. It's a big fuzzy ball in binoculars low in the southern sky in the…
Solved: The Mystery of Earth’s Theta Aurora
The mystery of the northern lights – aurora - spans time beyond history and to cultures of both the southern…
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The Top 101 Astronomical Events to Watch for in 2015
Phew! It’s here. Now in its seventh year of compilation and the second year running on Universe Today, we’re proud…