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Moonlight Is a Many-Splendored Thing
"By the Light of the Silvery Moon" goes the song. But the color and appearance of the Moon depends upon the particular set…
NASA’s NuSTAR Scans the Sun with X-ray Vision
What if you had x-ray vision like Superman? Or if those funny-looking glasses they advertised in comic books in the 60s…
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Probing Pluto’s Paltry Atmosphere Using A Solar Eclipse And Spacecraft
Pluto is so far away from us and so tiny that it's hard to glean even basic facts about it.…
Astronomers Discover First Mulitiple-image Gravitationally-lensed Supernova
How about four supernovae for the price of one? Using the Hubble Space Telescope, Dr. Patrick Kelly of the University of…
A Thousand Days ‘Til Totality: Anticipating the 2017 Solar Eclipse
Where will YOU be on August 21st, 2017? Astronomy is all about humility and thinking big in terms of space…
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Gets Its Color From Sunlight, Study Suggests
If it weren't for the Sun, Jupiter's Great Red Spot would be a much blander feature on the gas giant,…
Better than Bieber, Rosetta’s Comet Sings Strange, Seductive Song
Tune in to the song of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko Scientists can't figure exactly why yet, but Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been singing since…
‘Not All Hope Is Lost’: NASA Sun Probe Silent Now For Six Weeks
No one knows exactly why a NASA solar probe stopped talking to Earth six weeks ago, but it's possible the…
RAISE: How to Capture 1,500 Solar Images in a Five Minute Flight
Quick: how do you aim an instrument at the Sun from a moving rocket on a fifteen minute suborbital flight?…
Beautiful Images of the October 23, 2014, Partial Solar Eclipse
"The Sun looks like it has a bite taken out of it!" said one enthusiastic viewer of the partial solar…