Massive stars are born in tumultuous clouds of gas and dust. They lead a brief but intense life, blowing powerful winds of particles and radiation that…
Read the articleTouring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA’s new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TEDActive 2014 Conference in…
Read the articleAstronomers are announcing today that they have acquired the first direct evidence that gravitational waves rippled through our infant universe during an explosive period of growth…
Read the articleIn celebration of the 24th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (on April 24, 1990) astronomers have taken an infrared-light portrait of a…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 499 Predicted occultation of Regulus March 15, 2014 On 2014 March 20 at approximately 02:06 a.m. EDT (06:06 UT), an occultation of Regulus…
Read the articleAAVSO Alert Notice 498 Nova Cephei 2014 = TCP J20542386+6017077 March 10, 2014 Event: Nova Cephei 2014 = TCP J20542386+6017077 Discovered by: Koichi Nishiyama (Kurume, Japan)…
Read the articleCosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey debuted in the USA last night on Fox networks across the country at 9PM EDT/PDT. If you missed it, it should be…
Read the articleMore than 400 years ago, Galileo turned a primitive spyglass toward the sky, and in just a few nights learned more about the unseen heavens than…
Read the articleNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has recorded the never-before-seen break-up of an asteroid into as many as 10 smaller pieces. Fragile comets, comprised of ice and dust,…
Read the articleAstronomers say that magnetic storms in the gas orbiting young stars may explain a mystery that has persisted since before 2006. Researchers using NASA’s Spitzer Space…
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