Artist’s view of bright spots on Ceres based on a detailed map of the surface compiled…
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Astro Blog
Stargazing Calendar for June 2024
NGC 6523 or the Lagoon Nebula taken by the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO’s Paranal…
704 Interamnia: A Giant Asteroid
Asteroid 704 Interamnia. VLT/SPHERE image of the asteroid, deconvolved with the MISTRAL algorithm. Credit: ESO/J. Hanuš…
Stargazing Calendar for May 2024
Comet 46P/Wirtanen on December 12, 2018. Credit: Stub Mandrel. License: CC BY-SA 4.0. Embark on a…
Stargazing Calendar for April 2024
Sombrero Galaxy (M104 or NGC 4594). A mosaic of six images taken by the Hubble Space…
Stargazing Calendar for March 2024
Theta Carinae Cluster (IC 2602). Credit: Tel Lekatsas. License: CC BY 2.0. Embark on a celestial…
How Is a Fireball (Or Bolide) Different From a Meteor?
A fireball falling over ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array). Credit: ESO/C. Malin. License: CC BY 4.0.…
Why Your Kids Will Live on Mars
Terraforming Mars image by Daein Ballard. License: CC BY-SA 3.0. Mars’s daytime temperature hits 35 ºC…
What Is the Zenithal Hourly Rate?
Perseid meteor shower peak in 2023. Credit: Jim Vajda. License: CC BY 2.0. As the night…
What Is an H II Region?
Stellar nursery N159 is an HII region over 150 light-years across located in the Large Magellanic…