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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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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,…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

‘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…

10 years ago

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?…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

Beastly Sunspot Amazes, Heightens Eclipse Excitement

That's one big, black blemish on the Sun today! Rarely have we been witness to such an enormous sunspot. Lifting…

10 years ago

Awesome Photo Shows Monster Sunspot Aiming Our Way

It's a-comin': a "monster" sunspot is steadily rotating around the Sun's southern hemisphere and will soon be in position to fire…

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