NGC 3572 and the Southern Tadpoles
This cosmic skyscape features glowing gas and dark dust clouds along side the young stars of NGC 3572. […]
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NGC 3521: Galaxy in a Bubble
Gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is a mere 35 million light-years away, toward the northern springtime constellation Leo. […]
Planets Over Egyptian Pyramid
The early morning planet parade continues. Visible the world over, the planets Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn have […]
Catch and Release: Rocket Lab Grabs Booster Falling From Space ...
The company aims to join Elon Musk’s SpaceX in reusing rocket boosters, which can lower costs and increase […]
Mercurys Sodium Tail
That’s no comet. Below the Pleiades star cluster is actually a planet: Mercury. Long exposures of our Solar […]
An Anaconda’s Play Date With Dolphins Took a Strange Turn ...
Why were Bolivian river dolphins swimming around with a large predatory snake in their mouths? “There are so […]
Partial Solar Eclipse over Argentina
What’s happened to the Sun? Two days ago, parts of South America were treated to a partial solar […]
First Horizon Scale Image of a Black Hole
What does a black hole look like? To find out, radio telescopes from around the Earth coordinated observations […]
M44: The Beehive Cluster
A mere 600 light-years away, M44 is one of the closest star clusters to our solar system. Also […]
Started Out as a Fish. How Did It End Up ...
A meme about the transitional fossil Tiktaalik argues that although we did come out of the sea, we […]