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Washington DC (SPX) Nov 02, 2024 In the 1997 film 'Contact,' based on Carl Sagan's novel, the protagonist Ellie Arroway, played by Jodie Foster, takes a journey via a space-alien-constructed [...]

HOW TO USE THIS MAP This map portrays the sky as seen near 35[degrees] north latitude. Located inside the border are the cardinal directions and their intermediate points. To find [...]

Charlottesville, VA (SPX) Sep 11, 2024 Skywatchers may soon have a new phenomenon at which to look. Or not. T Corona Borealis, commonly known as the 'Blaze Star,' may flare [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2024 Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, and ESA's XMM-Newton, researchers have gained significant insights into the timing [...]

Washington DC (SPX) Aug 15, 2024 A new analysis of archival data reveals shocked gas in the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star TW Hydrae. This discovery hints at the [...]

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2024 Most stars in our universe come in pairs. While our own Sun is a loner, many stars like our Sun orbit similar stars, [...]

The gas giants reign as spectacular objects overnight; their moons also attract attention. Our evening sky has a rapidly diminishing view of Mercury, with Mars difficult to spot. Morning carries [...]

HOW TO USE THIS MAP This map portrays the sky as seen near 35[degree] north latitude. Located inside the border are the cardinal directions and their intermediate points. To find [...]

HOW TO USE THIS MAP This map portrays the sky as seen near 35[degrees] north latitude. Located inside the border are the cardinal directions and their intermediate points. To find [...]

MANY READERS OF Astronomy can point back to televised science fiction as their first introduction to the universe. For some--like me--it was The Outer Limits, which had a brief run [...]

HOW TO USE THIS MAP This map portrays the sky as seen near 35[degrees] north latitude. Located inside the border are the cardinal directions and their intermediate points. To find [...]

I wake up to a chime from my smartphone. Bleary-eyed, I check it--and jolt awake upon seeing an automated email from the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. The subject [...]

Astronomers have been on a rule-breaking, paradigm-shifting, label-blurring whirlwind of research in recent years, focusing on a most unlikely collection of objects: the cosmic homeless. It began in 1996, when [...]

Cologne, Germany (SPX) Feb 20, 2023 Gas clouds in the Cygnus X Region, a region where stars form, are composed of a dense core of molecular hydrogen (H2) and an [...]

Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2023 People around the world are seeing fewer and fewer stars in the night sky. The change in star visibility can be explained by an [...]

Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 05, 2023 A myriad of stars is revealed behind the faint orange glow of the Sh2-54 nebula in this new infrared image. Located in the constellation [...]

HOW TO USE THIS MAP This map portrays the sky as seen near 35[degrees] north latitude. Located inside the border are the cardinal directions and their intermediate points. To find [...]

HOW TO USE THIS MAP This map portrays the sky as seen near 35[degrees] north latitude. Located inside the border are the cardinal directions and their intermediate points. To find [...]

Our solar system's comets are believed to have delivered a wealth of material to early Earth. Among the icy visitors' suspected gifts were rare gases, small amounts of water, and [...]

What do we really know about our Sun's nearest stellar neighbors? We get so consumed with what's beyond our galaxy that we forget that our own stellar neighborhood is pretty [...]

In a few billion years, our aging Sun will r un out of hydrogen fuel in its core and begin to swell, eventually engulfing Mercury, Venus, and probably Earth. Known [...]

Houston TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2022 Rice University astronomer Megan Reiter and colleagues took a 'deep dive' into one of the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and [...]

London, UK (SPX) Nov 07, 2022 The study, published in the journal Science and led by researchers at the University of Padova, uses data from a NASA satellite, the Imaging [...]

Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 An international research team, with the participation of the University of Bern and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS, discovered two [...]

It's easy to underestimate the importance of a high-quality mount. First-time observers might opt for a cheaper model after splurging on an impressive telescope. But that likely means their mount [...]

HOW TO USE THIS MAP This map portrays the sky as seen near 35[degrees] north latitude. Located inside the border are the cardinal directions and their intermediate points. To find [...]

HOW TO USE THIS MAP This map portrays the sky as seen near 35[degrees] north latitude. Located inside the border are the cardinal directions and their intermediate points. To find [...]

Cambridge UK (SPX) Jun 14, 2022 On May 6, the International Journal of Astrobiology of Cambridge University Press published a paper titled 'An approximation to determine the source of the [...]

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 31, 2022NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the [...]

Washington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 EK Draconis illuminates an unimagined picture of how superflares may affect interplanetary space through coronal mass ejections Welcome to the New Year! While Earth [...]

The long nights of winter are the best time of the year for observing the stars and constellations and particularly the band of subtle starlight that constitutes the Milky Way. [...]

Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 Astronomers spying on a stellar system located dozens of lightyears from Earth have, for the first time, observed a troubling fireworks show: A star [...]

Goleta CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2021 On April 18, 2019, the European Space Agency's Gaia Mission alerted astronomers worldwide to an unusually bright but fleeting celestial event: the gravitational microlensing [...]

Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Nov 08, 2021 A group of astronomers, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, propose and have tested a mechanism that explains most of [...]

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 05, 2021 A NASA sounding rocket will observe a nearby star to learn how starlight affects the atmospheres of exoplanets - key information in the hunt [...]

New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 28, 2021Astronomers searching for Earth-like planets in other solar systems have made a breakthrough by taking a closer look at the surface of stars. A [...]

Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 Like a witness to a violent death, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recently gave astronomers an unprecedented, comprehensive view of the first moments of a [...]

Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 20, 2021 While black holes and toddlers don't seem to have much in common, they are remarkably similar in one aspect: Both are messy eaters, generating [...]

To astro-beginners, the night sky can seem like a funhouse of random dots. For those starting out in the astronomy hobby--maybe you bought a cool telescope and suddenly want to [...]