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Fast comet closest to Earth this week
Fast-moving comet C/2018 Y1 (Iwamoto) will pass closest to us - 28 million miles away - on February 12. Charts and more here.
February 11, 2019
Just for fun: Tour alien worlds
Some fun multimedia from NASA, including (free) Exoplanet Travel Bureau posters, cool 360-degree visualizations, and a journey into the life and death of planetary system.
February 11, 2019
A tale of 2 colliding exoplanets
Astronomers have new evidence for a collision between 2 nearly Earth-sized planets in the distant solar system Kepler-107.
February 10, 2019
Bubbles of brand new stars
This dazzling region of newly-forming stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud was captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope.
February 10, 2019
When will the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies collide?
The Andromeda galaxy is the nearest large spiral to our Milky Way. Astronomers have suspected for some time it will eventually collide with our Milky Way. Now - thanks to the Gaia satellite - they know more.
February 8, 2019
Cool! Watch swirling storm on Jupiter
Watch a giant, spiraling storm in Jupiter’s southern hemisphere in this animation, made from images taken by the Juno spacecraft.
February 6, 2019
Our Milky Way is warped
A team of astronomers has produced a 3D map of our galaxy, the 1st accurate one, they say. It reveals our galaxy's true shape as warped and twisted.
February 5, 2019
A plan to create artificial meteors
Everyone loves a good meteor shower, but what about an artificial one? A Japanese company plans to create one and has just launched hundreds of pellets to space. They'll ultimately rain down again in colorful displays.
February 5, 2019
Astronomers find a new, nearby galaxy
Astronomers studying a globular star cluster accidentally discovered a more-distant galaxy behind it. The little galaxy is 30 million light-years away and is nicknamed Bedin 1. The videos in this post take you there.
February 4, 2019
Listen: Is our universe a hologram?
A scientist explains one of the most mind-blowing ideas in physics in under 5 minutes.
February 3, 2019
