Astronaut’s Remarkable Image Captures Milky Way Beyond Earth’s Horizon
The shot of our planet and the great cosmos beyond offers an eerie sense of scale to our quotidian situations on Earth.
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We found that some comets in the inner Oort cloud form a long-lasting spiral structure." Spirals are a repeating theme in ...
NASA Gears Up for Weekend Launch Carrying Missions to Study the Milky Way and Sun
A SpaceX Falcon 9, carrying the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions, is scheduled to lift off on Sunday at 10:09 p.m. ET.
Dark skies across America are rapidly disappearing. Nevada is fighting to maintain theirs
Nevada is one of very few places left in the country where there is so little artificial light the Milky Way is visible to ...
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An Astronaut Just Captured a Jaw-Dropping Photo of Earth and the Milky Way from Space
This stunning photo was taken on January 29, 2025, from 265 miles (425 km) above the Pacific Ocean. Pettit, a seasoned ...
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Astronaut’s Stunning Photo Captures the Milky Way Like Never Before
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have a front-row seat to some of the most extraordinary sights in the ...
Hubble sees mini galaxies surrounding Andromeda are pretty wild
"Everything scattered in the Andromeda system is very asymmetric and perturbed. It does appear that something significant ...
Image: The Milky Way on the horizon
NASA astronaut Don Pettit used a camera with low light and long duration settings to capture this Jan. 29, 2025, image of the ...
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Milky Way’s Black Hole Suddenly Lit Up Out Of The Blue — And Scientists Have No Explanation For It
And Scientists Have No Explanation For It The vast space beyond our planet’s wall was rightly known as the final frontier, ...
Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
How astronomers make deep maps of the Milky Way
Have you ever wondered how astronomers manage to map out the Milky Way when it's so incredibly vast? One of the most powerful ...
Look for the winter Milky Way and zodiacal light in March
In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead. Directly ...