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Eleanor Imster
Most distant massive galaxy cluster
Astronomers have detected a massive, churning galaxy cluster - with potentially thousands of individual galaxies - in the early universe.
January 11, 2016
Gorgeous timelapse of California skies
Southern California night skies ... looking from inside massive sea caves and across miles of inland desert. Wonder Endlessly timelapse by Jack Fusco.
January 9, 2016
Can you spot a third moon?
Three of Saturn's moons appear in this image. Two are easy to spot. Can you find the third? Hint: It's tiny!
January 7, 2016
Astronomers find dozens of runaway stars
As water piles up before a ship, so material stacks up ahead of high-mass stars moving fast through space. These cosmic bows shocks revealed the runaway stars.
January 6, 2016
Earth ABCs from space
HNY - Happy New Year! All 26 letters of the alphabet, spelled out in Earth's features as seen from orbit.
January 1, 2016
NASA suspends 2016 launch of InSight Mars mission
NASA has called off the planned March 2016 launch of the InSight mission to Mars, following failure to repair a leaky instrument in the science payload.
December 24, 2015
Science fireplace
Warm up your holidays with this crackling science fireplace. It takes about an hour for the whole log to burn.
December 23, 2015
Climate change rapidly warming world’s lakes
Lakes around the world are warming rapidly, threatening ecosystems and water supplies, says a new study that looked at more than half of Earth's freshwater supply.
December 23, 2015
Global impacts of strong 2015 El Niño
People the world over are feeling, or soon will feel, the effects of the strongest El Niño event since 1997-98.
December 16, 2015
People rename 14 stars and 31 exoplanets
The votes are in. The IAU has accepted the people's choice of names for 14 stars and 31 exoplanets. Exoworlds are now named for deities, demons and scientists.
December 15, 2015
