Hubbles Jupiter and the Shrinking Great Red Spot
What will become of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot? Gas giant Jupiter is the solar system’s largest world with […]
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What We Know About Unfolding the James Webb Space Telescope ...
Engineers sent commands to deploy the mirrors on the space observatory, then latch them into place, a critical […]
Quadrantids of the North
Named for a forgotten constellation, the Quadrantid Meteor Shower puts on an annual show for planet Earth’s northern […]
Ecstatic Solar Eclipse
A male Adelie penguin performed this Ecstatic Vocalization in silhouette during the December 4 solar eclipse, the final […]
The Last Days of Venus as the Evening Star
That’s not a young crescent Moon posing behind cathedral towers after sunset. It’s Venus in a crescent phase. […]
A Year of Sunrises
Does the Sun always rise in the same direction? No. As the months change, the direction toward the […]
Moons Beyond Rings at Saturn
What’s happened to that moon of Saturn? Nothing — Saturn’s moon Rhea is just partly hidden behind Saturn’s […]
NASA’s Retiring Top Scientist Says We Can Terraform Mars and ...
Jim Green has shaped much of the space agency’s scientific inquiry for decades. Published: January 2, 2022 at […]
Quadruple Lunar Halo Over Winter Road
Sometimes falling ice crystals make the atmosphere into a giant lens causing arcs and halos to appear around […]
The Full Moon of 2021
Every Full Moon of 2021 shines in this year-spanning astrophoto project, a composite portrait of the familiar lunar […]