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Astronomy

An unusual type of solar eclipse occurred in 2012. Usually it is the Earth’s Moon that eclipses the […]

The Earth’s dark umbral shadow is shaped like a cone extending into space. Of course its circular cross […]

This atmospheric picture of a distant horizon looks toward the tall Trisul peaks of India’s snowy Himalayan mountains. […]

Near the closest point in its orbit, the second Full Moon of the month occurred on January 31. […]

Sixty years ago, on January 31, 1958, the First Explorer was successfully launched by the Army Ballistic Missile […]

Why is Venus so different from Earth? To help find out, Japan launched the robotic Akatsuki spacecraft which […]

Will the spider ever catch the fly? Not if both are large emission nebulas toward the constellation of […]

On sol 1943 of its journey of exploration across the surface of Mars, the Curiosity Rover recorded this […]

By chance, a collision of two galaxies has created a surprisingly recognizable shape on a cosmic scale, The […]

This telescopic close-up shows off the otherwise faint emission nebula IC 410. It also features two remarkable inhabitants […]