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We're About To Witness A Stellar Event Potentially First Recorded In A Medieval Manuscript
IFLScience· 3 days agoThe star – actually a binary star system comprising a white dwarf and a red giant – is for the most...
Nova explosion visible to the naked eye expected any day now
Ars Technica· 6 days agoRoughly in the middle of that arc, you'll find the Northern Crown constellation, which looks a bit...
Solar eclipses are so last month. Get ready for a 'planetary parade'
LA Times via AOL· 5 days agoA "planetary parade" will occur June 3, when Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will...
An Astrobiologist Reveals Why She’s Optimistic We’ll Find Alien Life On Another Planet
Inverse· 1 day agoAstrobiologist Lisa Kaltenegger spends her days building miniature worlds. Kaltenegger and her...
Moment of Science: The Sun
WWSB Sarasota· 1 day agoWe’ve tried to douse the Sun with water in a previous episode, but because water is two-thirds hydrogen, that fuel made the Sun twice as massive and 16...
The Sky This Week from May 24 to 31: Look for the Last Quarter Moon | Astronomy.com
Astronomy Magazine· 4 days agoThe Moon reaches Last Quarter as it travels past several planets in the sky this week. Plus, pick up a comet, star clusters, and more!
Social Media Flooded With Videos of a Dramatic Fireball Over Spain and Portugal
IGN Videogames· 6 days agoThe European Space Agency’s (ESA) Planetary Defence Office is investigating the appearance of an...
Commentary: Reflecting on Voyager 1's long journey
Roanoke Times· 4 days agoVoyager 1 and I have been friends for most of my life. The Grand Tour space probe project began in 1964 under Lyndon Johnson to take advantage of an infrequent alignment of the planets. Previously ...
Complete Stellar Collapse: Unusual star system proves that stars can die quietly
Science Daily· 6 days agoOne day, the star at the center of our own solar system, the Sun, will begin to expand until it engulfs Earth. Its collapse would culminate into an explosion, ejecting energy and mass into space ...
Astrophysicists may have cracked mystery of vanishing stars
Newsweek· 5 days agoRather than dying dramatically in a massive supernova explosion, some large stars may die quietly...
