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Rosetta’s Comet Meets Charlie Brown’s “Pig-Pen”
Anyone who's ever read a Charlie Brown comic strip knows "Pig-Pen", the lovable boy who walks around in a constant cloud…
Revisit Halley’s Comet – Stay Up Late for This Week’s Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower
UPDATE: Watch a live webcast of the meteor shower, below, from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center during the night of…
LADEE Sees Zodiacal Light before Crashing into Moon, but Apollo Mystery Remains
Sunrise over the surface of the moon: a series of star tracker images taken by LADEE Saturday, April 12. The…
Happy Equinox! – A Perfect Time to See the Zodiacal Light
Welcome to the first day of spring! If you have a clear night between now and April 1, celebrate the…
Dusty Galaxies Shine Across The Universe In New Herschel Survey
While dust is easy to ignore in small quantities (says the writer looking at her desk), across vast reaches of…
Should This Alien World Even Exist? This Young Disk Could Challenge Planet-Formation Theories
Take a close look at the blurry image above. See that gap in the cloud? That could be a planet…
What Do Comet PANSTARRS And Pinocchio Have In Common?
While comets can't tell lies, they do sometimes grow long noses. As the weeks click by and our perspective on…
Closely-Orbiting Stellar Companions Surrounded by “Mystery Dust”
Artist's concept showing a dust disk around a binary system containing a white dwarf and a less-massive M (red) dwarf…
The Case of the Disappearing Dust
Astronomy has always taught us that planets form from vast clouds of dust and gas orbiting young stars. It's a…
M33’s “Object-X”
Often times, objects that are unremarkable in one portion of the spectra, can often be vivid in others. In M33,…