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Last night’s moon and Jupiter
Beautiful view of Jupiter - fourth-brightest sky object after the sun, moon and planet Venus - near last night's moon.
October 25, 2013
The coldest place in the universe
Astronomers say the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest place in the universe at one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit). It's even colder than background space.
October 24, 2013
Our Milky Way galaxy wobbles
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, makes small wobbling movements. Possible causes include the passage of a smaller galaxy through our own.
October 24, 2013
Smog disrupts life in northeast China
Major smog has closed major highways, schools, and businesses across parts of northeast China this week.
October 24, 2013
The most distant galaxy yet
It's the most distant, and therefore the earliest, yet discovered. It's seen as it was just 700 million years after the Big Bang.
October 23, 2013
Birdsong recordings harm birds
Although playing recorded song to lure a bird into view is frowned upon by birdwatchers, some people still do it. Will these new findings get them to stop?
October 23, 2013
View from space: Russian missile contrail
Two astronauts' photos of the contrail from a Russian missile launch
October 23, 2013
Fossil reveals earliest known central nervous system of an animal
Scientists traced iron deposits that occupied the space of long-gone central nervous system tissue. An outline of a 520-million-year-old central nervous system emerged.
October 23, 2013
Halo around the moon
There's truth to this old saying: halo around the moon means rain soon.
October 23, 2013
