Astronomy
Hubble Spots the Ghostly Light From Dead Galaxies
In a patch of sky 3.5 billion light-years away there are hazy elliptical galaxies, colorful spirals, blue arcs and distorted…
Earth Dodges a Bullet — New Radar Images of Asteroid 2014 SC324
Looks like we dodged a bullet. A bullet-shaped asteroid that is. The 70-meter Goldstone radar dish, part of NASA's Deep…
Possible Bright Supernova Lights Up Spiral Galaxy M61
I sat straight up in my seat when I learned of the discovery of a possible new supernova in the…
Mercury Pierces the Zodiacal Light at Dawn this Weekend
Psst! Ever spy the planet Mercury? The most bashful of all the naked eye planets makes its best dawn appearance…
Double Disc Found Feeding Each Other In Binary Star System
Deep within the Taurus Dark Cloud complex, one of the closest star-forming regions to Earth has just revealed one of…
Just In Time for Halloween: Jupiter Gets a Giant Cyclops Eye!
Halloween is just around the corner. And in what appears to be an act of cosmic convergence, Hubble captured a…
100,000 Ice Blocks Mapped Out at the South Pole … of Enceladus
Ever since the Cassini space probe conducted its first flyby of Enceladus in 2005, the strange Saturnian moon has provided…
Comet K1 PanSTARRS: See It Now Before it Heads South
Comet C/2012 K1 PanSTARRS, one of the most dependable comets of 2014, may put on its encore performance over the…
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Why Watch ESA Rosetta’s Movie ‘Ambition’? Because We Want to Know What is Possible
NASA has taken on space missions that have taken years to reach their destination; they have more than a dozen…
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Making Cubesats do Astronomy
One doesn't take two cubesats and rub them together to make static electricity. Rather, you send them on a brief space voyage…