What Would We Want to Know if We Landed on Europa Today?
Most of what scientists know of Jupiter’s moon Europa they have gleaned from a dozen or so close flybys from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979…
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The Earth at Night – How Bad Is Light Pollution Where You Live?
Light Pollution is the bane of astronomers everywhere. We’ve been complaining about it for decades and for the most part, get ignored for our efforts. Some…
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Tuning Into Meteors With Your Radio
This August sees the return of the Perseid meteor shower and, with the moon setting around midnight on Aug 11, the early hours of the 12th…
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Something Big Is About to Happen on the Sun
Something big is about to happen on the sun. According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun’s vast magnetic field is about to flip. “It looks…
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Did a Need for Lighting Fires Lead to the Development of the Telescope?
While working to correct an extreme case of myopia (otherwise known as short-sightedness), Dutch optician Hans Lippershey stumbled upon the fact that a particular arrangement of…
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Newborn Star Revealed by Light Reflected Onto Plumes of Dark Cloud
The mysterious, almost mystical bright light emerging from these thick, ominous clouds is actually a telltale sign of forming stars. Here, a very young star is…
Read the articleA Genuine Apollo-Era NASA Moon Camera Is on Ebay Right Now!
Have you ever wanted to take pictures like an astronaut? Now is your chance. There’s an original Hasselblad 500EL Electric Camera kit on Ebay right now.…
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Hubble Finds Telltale Fireball After Gamma Ray Burst
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has provided the strongest evidence yet that short-duration gamma-ray bursts are triggered by the merger of two small, super-dense stellar objects, such…
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Galaxy Evolution Puzzle Cracked With the Help of the Hubble Space Telescope
New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers crack a longstanding puzzle about galaxy evolution. For years, scientists have wondered why galaxies that have…
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Subaru Telescope’s New Camera Takes Stunning Image of Andromeda Galaxy
This stunning image of M31 captured by Subaru Telescope‘s Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) displays the fruits of international collaboration and technological sophistication aligned with cutting-edge science. The…
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