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Tag: Bad Astronomy

Breathe easy: You have an extra 600 million years before Andromeda crashes into us

Phil Plait

Feb 11, 2019

Illustration of a cosmic train wreck: The Milky Way/Andromeda galaxy collision, four billion years from now. Credit: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), T. Hallas, and A. Mellinger

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

The Milky Way ate another galaxy, and we can still see the undigested bits

Phil Plait

Nov 6, 2018

Artwork depicting the stars from Gaia-Enceladus (arrows indicate their velocity) merging with the Milky Way based on actual physical simulations.

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

The Milky Way’s sibling spiral star system

Phil Plait

Oct 19, 2018

The central region of the gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 6744, imaged using the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Stunning chaos in the galactic core

Phil Plait

Jul 17, 2018

The center of the Milky Way galaxy imaged in radio waves by the MeerKAT observatory. Supernova, stellar nurseries, and filaments of gas are strewn everywhere. Credit: MeerKAT

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Exoplanets

Two planets discovered: One by gravity, one by accident [Part 1]

Phil Plait

May 29, 2018

Artwork of a star and exoplanet. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Exoplanets

Tag: Bad Astronomy

My god. It *is* full of stars.

Phil Plait

May 7, 2018

The galactic center, a crowded metropolis of stars and dust. Credit: ESO/VVV Survey/D. Minniti & Acknowledgement: Ignacio Toledo

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: astrophotography

Gaia: This is not a photo of the night sky

Phil Plait

Apr 30, 2018

A section of the all-sky map made using the second data release from the Gaia mission. This maps the density of stars versus position, where brighter pixels are places with more stars. Credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: astrophotography

Tag: European Space Agency

Second Gaia star chart has been released, providing the most comprehensive view of the galaxy to date

Blair Marnell

Apr 25, 2018

Tag: European Space Agency

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: supermassive black holes

A star is about to plunge head first toward a monster black hole. Astronomers are ready to watch.

Phil Plait

Mar 7, 2018

Artwork depicting three stars and their orbits around Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way. Credit: ESO/M. Parsa/L. Calçada

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: supermassive black holes

Tag: Bad Astronomy

There is a hierarchy to the Universe

Phil Plait

Oct 3, 2017

NGC 6874, a huge elliptical galaxy, surrounded by Coma Cluster galaxies, and tens of thousands of globular clusters. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: time-lapse video

Poli'ahu: Time-lapse of telescopes and stars dancing under Hawaiian skies

Phil Plait

May 18, 2017

star trails over Mauna Kea

Tag: Bad Astronomy

Tag: time-lapse video

Tag: Bad Astronomy

What will the sky look like in five million years?

Phil Plait

Apr 13, 2017

the sky in 5 million years

Tag: Bad Astronomy

See our galaxy as it was billions of years ago

Elizabeth Rayne

Apr 5, 2017

Tag: European Space Agency

ESA releases largest star map ever compiled, featuring 1.1 billion stars

Trent Moore

Sep 15, 2016

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Tag: European Space Agency

German scientists create incredible 46-billion pixel image of our Milky Way

Jeff Spry

Nov 2, 2015

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