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Where All The Hottest Stars Gather
[/caption] An ESO telescope captures a group of hot young stars that would outshine any Hollywood party! At the upper…
Grab a seat for the Celestial Lights show!
Painstakingly assembled from over 150,000 digital photos taken over the course of eight months, this stunning time-lapse video of aurora-filled…
Hubble Gets Best Look Yet At Messier 9
[/caption] First discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, the globular cluster Messier 9 is a vast swarm of ancient stars…
VISTA View Is Chock Full Of Galaxies
[/caption] See all those tiny points of light in this image? Most of them aren't stars; they're entire galaxies, seen…
What Does Space Look Like From Space?
Pretty impressive, I'd say! This video is a compilation of different time-lapses taken from the ISS over the past several…
The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe
In a 2008 interview by TIME magazine, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was asked what he thought the "most astounding fact"…
New Study Shows How Trace Elements Affect Stars’ Habitable Zones
[/caption] Habitable zones are the regions around stars, including our own Sun, where conditions are the most favourable for the…
Why Does Sirius Twinkle?
[/caption] At this time of year, after dark we in the northern hemisphere are able to see the mighty constellation…
NASA’s Airborne Observatory Targets Newborn Stars
[/caption] (DING!) "The captain has turned off the safety lights – you are now free to explore the infrared Universe."…
Echoes From η Carinae’s Great Eruption
[/caption] During the mid 1800's, the well known star η Carinae underwent an enormous eruption becoming for a time, the…