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Exoplanet Anniversary: 1st Alien Worlds Confirmed 25 Years Ago Today

This artist’s illustration shows the three known planets orbiting the pulsar PSR B1257+12. The two outermost planets, now officially named Poltergeist and Phobetor, are the first confirmed exoplanets; their discovery was announced in January 1992. The exoplanet revolution began 25 years ago today. On Jan. 9, 1992, astronomers Alex Wolszczan and Dale Frail published a […]

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Photographer Captures Spectacular Star Trails Over Sculpture Park

Amateur astrophotographer Adam Gordon took this photo of star trails in Anza Borrego Desert State Park in southern California on Sept. 30, 2016. Star trails look larger than life among the sculptures of a grasshopper and scorpion. Astrophotographer Adam Gordon took the image at California’s Anza Borrego Desert State Park on the night of Sept. […]

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Breakthrough Starshot Enlists Giant Telescope to Seek Planets at Alpha Centauri

Breakthrough Initiatives, a private organization that’s dedicated to looking for life elsewhere in the universe, has enlisted the help of a massive telescope in Chile to search for planets around one of the nearest star systems to our sun, officials announced today. Earlier this year, scientists announced the discovery of a potentially rocky planet orbiting […]

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Two–faced moon

Space Science Image of the Week: A global colour mosaic of Saturn’s moon Dione shows striking contrasts between its two faces To source

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Dark Nebula Glows Red in Amateur Astronomer's Photo

Thick blankets of dust surround the predominantly dark region in Barnard 343, a dark nebula in the constellation Cygnus. Astrophotographer Jeffrey O. Johnson took this image from his backyard in Las Cruces, New Mexico. “I took this image after I found the dark area when looking at a star map (Google Sky) and looking specifically […]

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Lucky Shot! Skywatcher Captures Space Station Soaring Over Vienna

Matthias Raudonis took this image of the ISS over Vienna on June 10, 2016. Skywatcher Matthias Raudonis had only one chance to catch the International Space Station (ISS) over Vienna. With a bit of luck and precise timing, he captured the shot. Raudonis was in Austria on a student exchange program from Germany. He’d planned […]

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Your Home Planet, as Seen From Mars

Here is a view of Earth and its moon, as seen from Mars. It combines two images acquired on Nov. 20, 2016, by the HiRISE camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with brightness adjusted separately for Earth and the moon to show details on both bodies. To source

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How Far to That Galaxy? Thousands of Cosmic Distances Now Catalogued

This NASA graphic displays all of the astronomical light sources included in the new NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database, an online catalog of more than 100,000 galaxies. One of the most basic questions in astronomy is how far away something is. Now, a new catalog of objects will help scientists answer that question for tens of thousands […]

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Early Universe Black Holes Grew In Bursts, X-Ray Data Shows | Video

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CAVES 'Trippin' – Enter The Otherworldly Realm Where Astronauts Train | Video

Recommended videos for you Early Universe Black Holes Grew In Bursts, X-… CAVES ‘Trippin’ – Enter The Otherworldly Real… 2017 Solar Eclipse Path: Moon Features Adjust… ‘Hidden Figures’ Stars: Pre-Civil Rights ‘Min… Psyche and Lucy – New NASA Missions To Metal… Mysterious Fast Radio Burst’s Extragalactic H… Orion Nebula Is Stunning In Near-Infrared Lig… 3D […]

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Space Station Astronauts Taking Spacewalk Today: Watch It Live

NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough performs a spacewalk outside the International Space Station during the STS-126 space shuttle mission in 2008. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Peggy Whitson  are venturing outside the International Space Station today (Jan. 6) to upgrade the orbital outpost’s electrical power system. Kimbrough and Whitson departed through NASA’s Quest airlock shortly after […]

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