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Deborah Byrd
ALMA telescope spies a supermassive black hole’s spinning disk
For decades, astronomers have been talking about of galaxies with supermassive black holes at their cores. Now they say they've clearly confirmed a black hole's encircling, dusty, spinning disk of gas.
February 17, 2018
See it! Partial solar eclipse
View photos of the February 15, 2018 partial solar eclipse, which was visible from South America.
February 16, 2018
Interstellar asteroid’s tumble suggests a violent past
The 1st known interstellar asteroid - 'Oumuamua - is tumbling chaotically. A new study suggests its tumble resulted from a violent collision.
February 14, 2018
Jupiter’s North Temperate Belt
Did you know that NASA encourages people to download the RAW images from Juno's ongoing flybys of Jupiter, and also to process them?
February 13, 2018
Moon’s bulge reveals its slow retreat from Earth
As the young moon receded from Earth and began spinning more slowly, its large equatorial bulge would have shrunk, cooled and hardened. Today, this fossil bulge on the moon tells a story about the early solar system.
February 13, 2018
Spacecraft snaps new farthest-from-Earth images
Voyager 1 captured its famous Pale Blue Dot image at a record distance in 1990. It took 27 years to beat that record, but now New Horizons has.
February 12, 2018
Sunday morning moon and Saturn
An astrophotographer in Alamosa, Colorado, went outside before dawn to clear the snow. Then he noticed the moon and Saturn. That image and more, below.
February 11, 2018
Where is Elon Musk’s car going?
It was meant to go into an orbit that would take it past Mars, but where's it going really? Plus, see outer space from the vantage point of Starman, the mannequin in Elon Musk's red Tesla Roadster, and much more.
February 10, 2018
Elon Musk, on Falcon Heavy’s triumphant launch
Follow Musk's description of the successful launch of the Falcon Heavy lift vehicle, which will give the U.S. a capability in space not seen since the Saturn V rockets of the Apollo era.
February 7, 2018
James Webb Telescope arrives in California
The James Webb Telescope's 2 component halves had been undergoing testing in Houston. They're now at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in California, about to be assembled.
February 7, 2018
