Hubble captures barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...
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Saturn and the moon put on a celestial show Sunday night. Here's how to see it
When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...
The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.
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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...
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5 Space Missions to Watch In November 2024: ESA’s Artificial Solar Eclipse, Blue Origin and More
November will bring exciting new missions from the likes of SpaceX, ESA, Blue Origin, Rocket Lab and Roscosmos.
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Moon named "Miranda" orbiting Uranus seems to have an ocean and possibly life
A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...
Butterfly Nebula: What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to nearly 20 000 degrees Celsius. The gas is tearing across space at m…
From the mesmerizing Butterfly Nebula to the grand 'Pillars of Creation', check out these astonishing images of nebulae ...
Rover captures peculiar ‘googly eye’ in the Martian sky
The Perseverance rover spotted a quick glimpse of a cosmic “googly eye” on Mars during a recent solar eclipse. As Phobos, one ...
Googly-eyed potato eclipse filmed by NASA’s Perseverance rover
Phobos is no slowpoke. Given its size, angle, and orbital pattern, the moon makes a full-circle around Mars roughly once every 7.6 hours. This frequency also makes it far more likely to pass in front ...
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This Potentially Rogue Planet Might Have Rings That Rotate Backwards — And That’s Not the Weird Part
The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...