Three Potentially Nearby Habitable Worlds
Three potentially habitable worlds found around nearby ultracool dwarf star, the best place to search for life beyond the Solar System.
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A Unique Red Rectangle
Hubble Space Telescope frames the unique star HD 44179, surrounded by an extraordinary structure known as the Red Rectangle.
An impressive Phoenix Aurora over Iceland
All of the other aurora watchers had gone home. By 3:30 am in Iceland, on a quiet night last September, much of that night’s auroras had died
A glimpse of our Sun’s future from a Dying star
A dying star’s final act of celestial beauty before the long fade into cosmic history, offers glimpse of our Sun’s future.
Watch how a Satellite gets ready to go to Space
A timelapse video showing Sentinel-3A satellite, from final preparations to liftoff on a Rocket launcher from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
Breaking the Sound Barrier
A sonic boom is a loud, thunder-like noise heard by a person on the ground when an aircraft flies overhead at supersonic speeds, breaking the sound barrier.
Seven Stars named after David Bowie
A constellation has been named after David Bowie, to honor the Starman singer who died 9 days ago at the age of 69.
Visible light emitted from a Black Hole detected for first time
Astronomers have discovered that black holes can be observed through a simple amateur telescope, from the violent bursts of light released when material from surrounding space falls
Geminid meteor shower peaks in the next few days
Geminid meteor shower peaks in the next few days, filling your sky with shooting stars.
Gravitational Lensing
The cat-like features are actually distant galaxies whose light has been stretched and bent by the large amounts of mass contained in foreground galaxies. The effect called