A mysterious ‘superbubble’ carved in the heart of a glowing emission nebula – Astronomy Now
[ad_1] N44, a 1,000-lightyear-wide emission nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, features an intriguing void, or superbubble, where hydrogen gas
Read more[ad_1] N44, a 1,000-lightyear-wide emission nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, features an intriguing void, or superbubble, where hydrogen gas
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Read more[ad_1] The Milky Way is awash in planets: We’ve found almost 5,000 of them to date, not counting thousands more
Read more[ad_1] In this month’s Sky Tour astronomy podcast, we seek out some shooting stars, get ready for a lunar eclipse,
Read more[ad_1] Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 3 October. Image: Rolando Ligustri. Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has become one of the best-known of all the
Read more[ad_1] The Hubble Space Telescope peered into the cloudy heart of a dying star, revealing cobwebs of dust and sooty
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Read more[ad_1] The AAS is honored to be continuing the legacy of Willmann-Bell, Inc. by selling and publishing their robust catalog
Read more[ad_1] Nova Cassiopeiae 2021 was still hovering around magnitude 7.8 as of October 28th, after nearly a dozen rises and
Read more[ad_1] Venus is a brilliant and improving ‘evening star’ following greatest eastern elongation from the Sun on 29 October. The
Read more[ad_1] The Parkes radio telescope, also called by its Wiradjuri name Murriyang, detected the signal of interest from Proxima Centauri.CSIRO
Read more[ad_1] They may both be blue, but Uranus’s diameter is four times that of Earth and possesses the coldest atmosphere
Read more[ad_1] A new study suggests that globular cluster Messier 5, otherwise known as NGC 5904, is more complicated than it
Read more[ad_1] The asteroid Bennu, as photographed by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Researchers analyzed what would happen if an asteroid 100 metres
Read more[ad_1] With autumn beckoning, our lengthening nights will thankfully soon be blessed again with twilight-free skies. Provided you’re observing from
Read more[ad_1] A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket provided the ride to space for NASA’s Lucy asteroid probe. Credit: United
Read more[ad_1] The James Webb Space Telescope is seen inside the S5C payload processing facility 15 October at the Guiana Space
Read more[ad_1] An artist’s impression of a cataclysmic impact in a young solar system 95 light years from Earth that may
Read more[ad_1] The Orionid meteor shower radiant. AN Graphic by Greg Smye-Rumsby. The Orionid meteor shower peaks on 21/22 October, but
Read more[ad_1] The Perseverance Mars rover, after collecting and storing two samples of martian rock and soil from the floor of
Read more[ad_1] The innermost-lying planet Mercury offers it’s best showing of the year in the pre-dawn sky for the rest of
Read more[ad_1] The Sun on 24 October, showing sunspot AR2887 near the Sun’s south-eastern limb. Image: SDO/HMI. A major new sunspot
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