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What is the Milky Way?
When you look up at the night sky, assuming conditions are just right, you might just catch a glimpse of…
Kepler Can Still Hunt For Earth-Sized Exoplanets, Researchers Suggest
Kepler may not be hanging up its planet-hunting hat just yet. Even though two of its four reaction wheels --…
Weekly Space Hangout – July 19, 2013
Here's our Weekly Space Hangout for July 19, 2013. Watch as a team of space and astronomy journalists discuss the…
Stars, Galaxies, and Comet ISON Grace a New Image from Hubble
This image of the steadily-approaching Comet ISON, made from observations with the Hubble Space Telescope on April 30, show not…
How Many Stars are There in the Universe?
When we look at the night sky, filled with stars, it’s hard to resist counting. Just with the unaided eye,…
An Amazing Anniversary Image from the VLT
This Saturday will mark 15 years that the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) first opened its eyes on…
Time-Lapse: Earth
If you couldn't tell, we love time-lapse videos... whether they're made of photos looking up at the sky from Earth…
The Rosy Remains of a Star’s Final Days
Stars like our Sun can last for a very long time (in human terms, anyway!) somewhere in the neighborhood of…
How to Reconstruct the Life of a Star
It takes time to understand the life of stars. A star like our Sun takes tens of millions of years…
Book Review: Vistas of Many Worlds
While many astronomy books are based around images that show us how the Universe appears to us right now, as…