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Interactive 360 degree Milky Way
See the full band of the Milky Way in an interactive full-sphere image taken June 14, 2016 on La Palma in Spain's Canary Islands.
July 20, 2016
Shifting identities for traveling neutrinos
MIT researchers show that neutrinos can change between several distinct “flavors” while traveling from a facility near Chicago to a detector in Minnesota.
July 19, 2016
Astronomers see a star’s water snow line
First distinct (resolved) observation of a water snow line - aka a frost line - the distance from a star where temperatures drop so low that water turns to ice.
July 19, 2016
Video takes you to Pluto’s surface
New video released on 1-year anniversary of New Horizons' visit to Pluto. It lets you ride aboard a Pluto spacecraft and then plunge toward its surface!
July 19, 2016
Wow! Another 104 confirmed exoplanets
That's from 197 new exoplanet candidates. In its extended (K2) mission, the Kepler space telescope has been looking toward cool, small, red dwarf-type stars.
July 18, 2016
Giant quake may lurk under Bangladesh
A huge earthquake could be building beneath Bangladesh, Earth's most densely populated nation. There's potential for some 140 million people to be affected.
July 18, 2016
Orion before dawn, over Thailand
In January and February, Orion is an evening constellation. But at this time of year, people around the world begin watching for Orion before dawn.
July 18, 2016
Why galaxies stop making stars
Nature and nurture in the evolution of galaxies, and what those factors mean with respect to whether galaxies continue forming stars, or not.
July 17, 2016
Watch Mercury and Venus set
What are the odds? Peter Lowenstein caught Venus and Mercury on the evening of their conjunction - July 16, 2016 - setting through a thin break in the clouds.
July 17, 2016
Last light at Mauna Kea summit
The sun sinks over the observatory atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano.
July 17, 2016
