Astronomy

the Butterfly Nebula
Supernova survivor stars are telling us how they got out the inferno alive
Elizabeth Rayne
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Could the alleged black hole in the center of our galaxy be a ginormous glob of dark matter?
Elizabeth Rayne
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Could the primordial ingredients of life be on their way to planets forming right now?
Elizabeth Rayne
May 14, 2021
Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy
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Hold your breath and enter this hypnotic map of 25,000 supermassive black holes
Jeff Spry
Feb 20, 2021
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Do white dwarfs still hang on to the crushed bones of their dead planets?
Elizabeth Rayne
Feb 6, 2021
NASA image of a white dwarf star
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Journey to the stars as Solar Orbiter captures rare shots of Earth, Mars, Venus, and Uranus all at once
Jeff Spry
Jan 30, 2021
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Space is obviously dark, but how dark can it get?
Elizabeth Rayne
Jan 18, 2021
NASA Hubble image of distant stars
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NASA's new 3D mapping space telescope 'SPHEREx' enters final design stage
Jeff Spry
Jan 9, 2021
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Could something missing in the universe be revealed by ripples in spacetime?
Elizabeth Rayne
Jan 2, 2021
NASA image of galaxy IC 10
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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.
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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
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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
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Go space truckin' on this newly paved celestial superhighway
Jeff Spry
Dec 13, 2020
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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
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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
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Amateur astronomer narrows down the culprit star of SETI's famous 1977 Wow! signal
Jeff Spry
Nov 27, 2020
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