View larger. | Artist’s concept of the centaur-type asteroid Chariklo, with its 2 thin rings. A…
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The brighter twin star of Gemini
Draw an imaginary line from 2 bright stars in the easy-to-see constellation Orion the Hunter to…
Big, dead satellite will crash back to Earth next week
Artist’s concept of ESA’s ERS-2. The dead satellite finished its mission back in 2011 and has…
We heart the Earth and sky! PHOTOS
Happy Valentine’s Day! We’re sharing the love by celebrating some of the many heart-shaped objects you…
What is orbital resonance? A dance between heavenly bodies
Astronomers use the term orbital resonance to describe the way planets can gravitationally affect each other…
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to cut 8% of workforce this week
The Space Flight Operations Center at Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been operational and staffed every day…
Isolated dwarf galaxy puzzles astronomers
View larger. | Meet dwarf galaxy PEARLSDG. It’s 98 million light-years away. But, thanks to NASA’s…
New supernova explodes in a galaxy in Virgo
The nearly edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4216 in the constellation Virgo lit up with a new…
Death Star moon Mimas has a hidden ocean
Mimas has an ocean! Wow! Queen Mary University of London originally published this announcement of an…
Did black holes come before galaxies at the beginning of time?
ChatGPT and Deborah Byrd created a 3-point summary for the longer article below: Astronomers thought the…