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An Exoplanet's Huge Comet-like Tail Hides An Astronomical Secret
Inverse· 5 days agoLocated 163 light-years from Earth, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet named WASP-69b offers astrophysicists...
In Photos: Watch The Full ‘Flower Moon’ And A Massive Red Star Rise
Forbes· 1 day agoMay’s full moon, the "Flower Moon," rose at dusk on Thursday beside Antares, a red supergiant star...
Commentary: Reflecting on Voyager 1's long journey
Roanoke Times· 1 day agoThe Grand Tour space probe project began in 1964 under Lyndon Johnson to take advantage of an infrequent alignment of the planets. Previously, the solar system< ...
Young 'cotton candy' exoplanet the size of Jupiter may be shrinking into a super-Earth
SPACE.com· 4 days agoUsing the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that a cotton-candy-like Jupiter-sized...
Young 'cotton candy' exoplanet the size of Jupiter may be shrinking into a super-Earth
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAstronomers have found that one of the lightest exoplanets ever seen, the young 'cotton candy' world...
A Rare Event Called A "Planetary Parade" Will Soon Take Over The Cosmos, See If You're In The Path...
InspireMore· 4 days agoBe sure to look at the night sky on June 3rd to see a somewhat rare event called a large "planetary...
NASA’s Europa Clipper Makes Cross-Country Flight to Florida
NASA· 1 day agoNASA’s Europa Clipper, a spacecraft designed to investigate Jupiter’s icy moon Europa and its potential to support life, arrived in Florida on Thursday, May 23. The mission ...
Webb Telescope Solves the Mystery of the Fluffy Marshmallow Planet
ExtremeTech· 3 days agoThe gas giants in our solar system are all way out in the frigid reaches of the outer solar system, but as we look ...
Why Everyone But NASA Missed Today’s Spectacular ‘Double Planet’ View
Forbes· 2 days agoVenus and Jupiter were tangled in a rare conjunction today—and everyone missed it. A rare close pass of the two brightest planets in the night sky occurred at 04:00 EST on ...
NASA space telescope finds Earth-size exoplanet that's 'not a bad place' to hunt for life
SPACE.com· 2 days agoScientists using a NASA space telescope have discovered a tantalizing world. It's about the size of...