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Sometimes we witness the Moon moving directly in front of — called occulting — one of the planets […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 24, 2023 by Farzin

Big storms are different on Jupiter. On Earth, huge hurricanes and colossal cyclones are centered on regions of […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 23, 2023 by Farzin

A nearby star has exploded and humanity’s telescopes are turning to monitor it. The supernova, dubbed SN 2023ifx, […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 22, 2023 by Farzin

Is this an alien? Probably not, but of all the animals on Earth, the tardigrade might be the […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 21, 2023 by Farzin

Galileo s Europa
Looping through the Jovian system in the late 1990s, the Galileo spacecraft recorded stunning views of Europa and […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 20, 2023 by Farzin

Curly Spiral Galaxy M63
A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is nearby, about 30 million light-years distant toward […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 19, 2023 by Farzin

WR 134 Ring Nebula
Made with narrowband filters, this cosmic snapshot covers a field of view about the size of the full […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 18, 2023 by Farzin

Why would a small part of the Sun appear slightly dark? Visible is a close-up picture of sunspots, […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 17, 2023 by Farzin

Most photographs don’t adequately portray the magnificence of the Sun‘s corona. Seeing the corona first-hand during a total […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 16, 2023 by Farzin

From afar, the whole thing looks like an eagle. A closer look at the Eagle Nebula, however, shows […]

This entry was posted in Astronomy and tagged astronomy NASA on May 15, 2023 by Farzin