This is an artist’s impression of the dying star WOH G64. It’s more than 160,000 light-years…
Category: Earth Sky
Rubin Observatory launches real-time alert system
This artist’s illustration represents the start of the alert stream from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.…
Giant ‘spiderwebs’ on Mars reveal surprising water clues
View larger. | NASA’s Curiosity rover captured this closeup view of some of the red planet’s…
Supermassive black hole stunts star growth in other galaxies
Artist’s concept of a galaxy with an active supermassive black hole millions to billions of times…
New evidence of lava tube on Venus found in old radar data
View larger. | Artist’s illustration depicting the skylight – a hole in the ceiling of the…
Why is the snowman shape so common in the Kuiper Belt?
In 2019, NASA’s New Horizons mission flew by Kuiper Belt object 486958 Arrokoth. Arrokoth has a…
Did an epic collision form Saturn’s moon Titan and rings?
View larger. | NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this stunning view of Saturn and Titan in 2012.…
Too many satellites? Is Earth’s orbit headed for catastrophe?
Here’s an astronomer’s view of a star obscured by streaks from Starlink satellites. Are there too…
The most recent volcanoes on Mars were surprisingly active
View larger. | Visualization of the volcano Pavonis Mons and the fissure next to it. A…
Milky Way and Andromeda held together by dark matter sheet
Simulated movement and speed (indicated by the length of the arrows) of objects surrounding the Local…