It’s time to view the Pleiades
Venus is currently the brilliant evening star. Shared around world, in tonight's sky Venus will begin to wander across the face of the lovely Pleiades star cluster. This digital sky map illustrates the path of the inner planet as the beautiful conjunction evolves,...
Comet Borisov breaks in two
Comet 2I/Borisov over the last few days. CREDIT: NASA/ESA/D. Jewitt Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Really Is Breaking Apart, According to New Data (Science Alert)Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov Double (Astronomer's Telegram) Switching topics entirely, we have word from...
Return of NASA “Worm” logo
This is the Falcon 9 rocket that will launch the Crew Dragon spacecraft, with NASA astronauts aboard. CREDIT: NASA NASA brings back its iconic “worm” logo to mark return of human spaceflight (Ars Technica) NASA has announced they are bringing back the classic NASA...
Star Collapse caused by Neon
An artist’s impression shows how an imaginary deep-sea fish "football-fish" (having Neon-Sign) eats away at the electrons inside a star core. CREDIT: Kavli IPMU Electron-capture supernova: electron-eating neon causes star collapse (Kavali IPMU) Understanding how stars...
Hubble finds best mid-sized black hole evidence
New data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have provided the strongest evidence yet for mid-sized black holes in the Universe. Hubble confirms that this “intermediate-mass” black hole dwells inside a dense star cluster. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble Space Telescope Hubble...
Carnival of Space #657
Check out this week’s sampling of space-related stories from our colleagues and friends!
How to see bright Comet ATLAS
Image of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) on March 14th, 2020, Canon 6D, Orion CT8 telescope. CREDIT: Martin Gembec at Wikimedia Commons How to see bright Comet ATLAS (Earth and Sky) April and May actually have a lot of potentially cool things to offer. The comet Atlas...
ESA to conduct BepiColombo flyby amid coronavirus crisis
The BepiColombo spacecraft in orbit around Mercury. CREDIT: ESA. ESA to conduct BepiColombo flyby amid coronavirus crisis (ESA)Bepicolombo - Exploring Mercury (ESA)Science With Bepicolombo (ESA) Let’s face it, we could all use a little positive excitement right...
Quasar winds with record energy levels were seen fleeing a distant galaxy
Bright, active black holes at the centers of galaxies, called quasars (illustrated), can blow gas out into space, shutting down galactic growth. CREDIT: J. Olmsted/STSCI, ESA, NASA Quasar winds with record energy levels were seen fleeing a distant galaxy...
A Wild, Six-Quark Particle Might Have Been Dark Matter All Along
A dibaryon-type hexaquark. There are two constituent quarks for each of the three color charges. CREDIT: Linfoxman on WIkipedia A Wild, Six-Quark Particle Might Have Been Dark Matter All Along Coming up with and then finding new particles is very much the quest of...
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