supernovae
Remarkable New Supernova Discovery Is Unlike Anything Seen Before
Astronomers have spotted something truly baffling: a new light 500 million light years away that looked exactly like a sup…
teun van der zalm
A Computer Randomly Generated These Nebulae That Look More Spectacular Than Hubble Images
Unless we find a way to travel infinitely faster than the speed of light, there’s no way you’ll ever see the farthest reac…
Stars
The moon will have close encounters with two star clusters this week
The moon is taking center stage this month in skies around the world. Earth's only natural satellite will have two im…
spiral galaxy
Incredible Gravitational Technique Reveals Oldest Spiral Galaxy on Record
Galaxies didn’t always take on the beautiful spiral shape we’ve come to associate with Andromeda and our own Milky Way. Lo…
Science
An Elaborate Planetary System May Exist Around Our Nearest Star
New observations show there’s at least one, but possibly three rings, of cold dust around our nearest star, Proxima Centau…
Space Exploration
Astronomers make intriguing discovery thanks to a citizen scientist
Citizen scientists all over the world work to aid in scientific discovery by combing through data and looking to the sky w…
Science
This Tiny Star Hosts a Planet Nearly the Size of Jupiter
Using an innovative new telescope array, an international team of researchers has discovered a distant gas giant roughly t…
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