On April 1, 1995, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the Eagle Nebula (M16) that would become one of the best known photos in astronomy. Showing towering columns, up to 4 light-years tall ...
As the familiar wintertime constellations begin setting earlier each evening, it’s our last chance to catch some of the deep-sky treasures they contain. The constellation Monoceros lies east of better ...
If everything goes according to plan, tomorrow, April 1, for the first time in more than 50 years, human beings will leave Earth bound for the Moon. The countdown began Monday at 4:44 p.m. EDT, with ...
NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite captured this composite image of southern Africa and the surrounding oceans on April 9, 2015. As sea levels in these oceans rise due to climate change, Earth’s rotation ...
From Earth, we only ever see one side of the Moon. This is because the time it takes the Moon to rotate around its own axis happens to be the same amount of time it takes for the Moon to orbit Earth: ...
Europe’s Spectrum rocket returns to the skies with Onward and Upward What's Launching This Week ...
The Moon passes 4° north of Jupiter at 8 A.M. EDT. By evening, they are high overhead in Gemini the Twins, now nearly 8° apart as the Moon sits near Pollux, the slightly brighter of the two brothers’ ...
A vertical dark band cutting through a bright nebula marks the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star IRAS 04302+2247. Observations of such disks will help astronomers understand how small ...
Born March 24, 1893, in Germany, Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade earned his Ph.D. from the University of Gottingen in 1919. He went on to a career at the Hamburg Observatory, then, in the late 1920s, ...
As close as we astronomers love to feel to space, one thing stands between us and the outer reaches: Earth’s atmosphere. More than 60 miles (97 kilometers) of gases separate us from the cosmos, and it ...
NASA’s Van Allen Probe A re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, March 11, at 6:37 a.m. EDT, marking the final chapter for a spacecraft that reshaped scientists’ understanding of the radiation ...
French inventor Louis Daguerre, pioneer of the early photography process of daguerreotypes, is believed to have captured the first photo of the Moon on Jan. 2, 1839. However, the quality and other ...
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