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Learning More About Supernovae Through Stardust
Most of the diverse elements in the Universe come from supernovae. We are, quite literally, made…
Astronomers Predict the Orbits of Potentially Hazardous Comets From Meteor Showers
Comets have long been seen as omens and portents, and it’s easy to understand why. They…
Amazing Reader Views of Comet A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS From Around the World
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS survived perihelion to become a fine dusk object for northern hemisphere observers.…
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…