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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
Best photos: Venus and Saturn January 9
A million thanks to you who posted photos on EarthSky pages of Venus and Saturn Saturday morning! Closer than any two planets since 2013 …
January 9, 2016
EarthSky News with Deborah Byrd
All the news you can fit into outer space LIVE on Slooh.com Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 UTC). Or watch right here!
January 7, 2016
A black hole’s double belch
At 26 million light-years from Earth, NGC 5195 has one of the nearest supermassive black holes to Earth that's currently undergoing such violent outbursts.
January 7, 2016
Kepler is back! 100 new planets
Astronomers meeting in Florida this week announced the 2015 results in the planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft's second-chance mission, dubbed K2.
January 7, 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
Ancient life in globular star clusters?
Astronomers have said globular clusters might not foster planets, and only one such planet is known. Here are new arguments on why they might exist, after all.
January 6, 2016
Four new elements added to periodic table
The new elements - elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 - complete the periodic table's seventh row and make science textbooks around the world instantly out-of-date.
January 6, 2016
Andromeda galaxy in high-energy X-rays
A space mission turned its X-ray vision on the Andromeda galaxy and spotted 40 X-ray binaries, exotic objects thought to play a role in our universe's evolution.
January 5, 2016
