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The Weird, Wild and Wonderful Universe, According to the Internet's Favorite Astronomer
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoPhilip Plait is a science communicator and astronomer, one who was part of NASA’s Hubble Space...
'Comet of the year' is getting brighter, heading to Earth
Houston Chronicle· 4 days agoWith the Great North American Solar Eclipse in April and the northern lights brought to unexpected places around the world in May, 2024 has been filled with once-in-a-lifetime ...
Voyager 1’s Revival Offers Inspiration for Everyone on Earth
Scientific American· 7 days agoNASA has reestablished touch with Voyager 1, the most distant thing built by our species, now...
Volcanic moon Io gets close-up look from Earth observatory
Astronomy Magazine· 6 days agoThe volcanic world Io has been a hot topic lately. In a paper to be published June 4 in Geophysical Research Letters, a U.S.-Italian team led captured the aftermath of a volcano’s plume dumping ...
Footage shows return of colossal sunspot that created Northern Lights
Mashable· 5 days agoAs the sun rotated, the spot faced away from us over the latter half of May. But now it's returning,...
With new, sharper optics, Arizona telescope captures rare images of Jupiter's moon Io - Berkeley...
UC Berkeley NewsCenter· 7 days agoSince 1979, when Jupiter’s moon Io was found to be pockmarked with volcanoes, astronomers and...
Innovative Engineering Shields NASA’s OSIRIS-APEX During Close Encounter With the Sun
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoOSIRIS-APEX, a NASA spacecraft, successfully navigated its closest approach to the Sun, exceeding design expectations and demonstrating robust engineering by protecting its sensitive components ...
Why telling time on the moon is a conundrum for NASA
CNN.com· 5 days agoAs multiple countries race to establish a human presence on the lunar surface, experts say it’s time to establish a time scale for Earth’s natural...
What does a meteorite taste like? Someone found out and bottled it.
Mashable· 5 days agoMaxime Girardin descends from a long line of winemakers in France's Burgundy region dating back at...
Chang’e-6: Moon samples collected and launched into lunar orbit
SpaceNews· 2 days agoMaterial from the far side of the moon has begun its journey for Earth after Chinese spacecraft...