Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS survived perihelion to become a fine dusk object for northern hemisphere observers.…
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Astronomer Calculates When van Gogh Painted This
One of my favorite paintings is Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh — for obvious astronomical…
Asteroid 2024 UG9 flew past Earth at just 0.02 LD – second closest of the year
This is the 105th known asteroid to fly past Earth within 1 lunar distance (<1 LD)…
Artemis V Astronauts Will be Driving on the Moon
In the summer of ’69, Apollo 11 delivered humans to the surface of the Moon for…
Tiny Fragments of a 4-Billion Year Old Asteroid Reveal Its History
In June 2018, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission reached asteroid 162173 Ryugu. It studied the asteroid for…
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope receives advanced coronagraph for exoplanet and dark matter research mission
NASA engineers have successfully integrated the state-of-the-art Roman Coronagraph Instrument with the Nancy Grace Roman Space…
Astronomers Have Found the Fastest Spinning Neutron Star
Neutron stars are as dense as the nucleus of an atom. They contain a star’s worth…
Tiangong space station welcomes Shenzhou 19 for six-month crewed mission
The Shenzhou 19 mission, carrying three crew members to China’s Tiangong space station, launched from the…
Bright fireball illuminates skies over Wellington, New Zealand
A bright fireball was observed over the skies of New Zealand on Sunday, October 27, 2024,…
Astronomers Discover Potential New Building Block of Organic Matter in Interstellar Space
Carbon is the building block for all life on Earth and accounts for approximately 45–50% of…