Astronomers have created a new map of the Milky Way that shows that about 30 percent of the stars have traveled a long way from the orbits they were born with.
How you can see the star HD219134, announced last week to have the nearest rocky exoplanet. Plus ... the star's proper motion, captured by an amateur astronomer.
The Dawn spacecraft is now moving to its third mapping orbit. Nothing new on the bright spots yet, but the crater that contains them has a new name: Occator.
Smaller in width than our Milky Way, their stars are packed 10,000 to a million times more densely than in our sun's neighborhood. Imagine the night sky!
Latest images from NASA's July 14, 2015 flyby of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft, showing evidence of an active surface on Pluto with flowing nitrogen ice.