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 ...
A twinkling group of stars dominates the center of this Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 2002 is an open star cluster that resides roughly 160,000 light-years aw…
Star clusters are formed when gravity pulls young stars together, forcing them to orbit each other. A star cluster can ...
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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From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope
The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of ...
March 4 Liftoff: NASA & SpaceX Update Launch Plans for SPHEREx & PUNCH
NASA and SpaceX are set to launch the SPHEREx and PUNCH missions on March 4, aiming to explore cosmic origins and the Sun’s ...
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How did Andromeda's dwarf galaxies form? Hubble Telescope finds more questions than answers
A family portrait of the Andromeda galaxy and its orbiting dwarf satellites raises questions about how galaxies evolve.
NASA’s SPHEREx Telescope to launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 for deep space exploration
Alongside SPHEREx, NASA will also launch PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), a mission with four ...
6 Mind-Blowing Facts About New NASA Discovery From Edge Of Our Solar System
Using a NASA supercomputer to run models, researchers led by SwRI astronomer David Nesvorny now believe that the Inner Oort cloud looks like a spiral disk, around 0.24 light-years across, with two ...
'2.5 million light-years away': NASA's Hubble Space Telescope discovers 36 dwarf galaxies orbiting Andromeda
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has identified 36 dwarf galaxies orbiting the Andromeda Galaxy. The images were compiled over ...
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Dispatch – March 1: White Snow, Red Coat
Then suddenly, near a stage set in front of Tbilisi’s Classical Gymnasium, the reporters dispersed, and I was left with a ...
Friday’s ‘Planetary Parade’ will give you a rare view of the Milky Way
With the stresses on planet Earth in the headlines, at work and your day-to-day life, do you need a reminder that we’re just a speck on a dot in the endless vacuum of space? If so, ...