Astronomy

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Tag: white dwarf

Do white dwarfs still hang on to the crushed bones of their dead planets?

Elizabeth Rayne

NASA image of a white dwarf star

Tag: white dwarf

Journey to the stars as Solar Orbiter captures rare shots of Earth, Mars, Venus, and Uranus all at once

Jeff Spry

Jan 30, 2021

Tag: New Horizons

Space is obviously dark, but how dark can it get?

Elizabeth Rayne

Jan 18, 2021

NASA Hubble image of distant stars

Tag: New Horizons

NASA's new 3D mapping space telescope 'SPHEREx' enters final design stage

Jeff Spry

Jan 9, 2021

Tag: dark energy

Could something missing in the universe be revealed by ripples in spacetime?

Elizabeth Rayne

Jan 2, 2021

NASA image of galaxy IC 10

Tag: dark energy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

2020 didn't completely suck: Here are some cool radio astronomy highlights

Phil Plait

Jan 1, 2021

Observations of the trinary star GW Ori (right) show it’s surrounded by a complex system of gas and dust, depicted in artwork (left) showing tilted rings and warped disks. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada, Exeter/Kraus et al.

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Plan emerges to rebuild collapsed Arecibo telescope, with early $8 million pledge from Puerto Rico

Benjamin Bullard

Dec 31, 2020

The enormous Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, in a photo taken in 2019 before it was damaged by broken cables. The NSF plans on decommissioning it soon. Credit: UCF

Tag: space colonization

Stars’ temper tantrums might not make it impossible for aliens to survive after all

Elizabeth Rayne

Dec 27, 2020

NASA image of a solar flare

Tag: space colonization

Tag: solar system

Go space truckin' on this newly paved celestial superhighway

Jeff Spry

Dec 13, 2020

Tag: solar system

ESA’s trippy time-lapse video travels 1.6 million years into the Milky Way’s future

Elizabeth Rayne

Dec 12, 2020

Gaia Milky Way projection

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Jupiter and Saturn align in the sky, their closest approach to each other in 400 years

Phil Plait

Dec 8, 2020

A couple, including the photographer, watch Jupiter and Saturn and the Milky Way over the Tre Cime di Lavaredo in the Italian Alps in early October 2020. Credit: Giorgia Hofer

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: SETI Institute

Amateur astronomer narrows down the culprit star of SETI's famous 1977 Wow! signal

Jeff Spry

Nov 27, 2020

Tag: SETI Institute

Swirling storms on Saturn and Jupiter are unlike anything on Earth

Elizabeth Rayne

Nov 21, 2020

One more for 2020! Comet Erasmus set to light up the dawn sky until mid-December

Jeff Spry

Nov 8, 2020

Is our Moon’s long-lost twin stalking Mars?

Elizabeth Rayne

Nov 7, 2020

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