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Last hurrah of sunlike star
New Hubble image shows the demise of a sunlike star. Our own sun will also burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years.
September 26, 2016
Cassini begins epic final year at Saturn
The spacecraft will plunge repeatedly between Saturn and its rings, and finally execute a headlong plummet into the body of Saturn itself.
September 26, 2016
Dwarf galaxies and dark matter update
Standard cosmology calls for many more dwarf galaxies than we see. A new computer simulation suggests we might not need so many dwarf galaxies, after all.
September 21, 2016
Twin jets pinpoint active galaxy’s heart
The supermassive black hole at the heart of NGC 1052 is now the most precisely located supermassive black hole in the universe … almost.
September 19, 2016
Hubble sees a comet breaking up
This comet is spinning so fast it's ejecting building-sized chunks, littering space with a debris trail as wide as the continental U.S.
September 18, 2016
Pluto ‘paints’ its largest moon red
"Who would have thought that Pluto is a graffiti artist, spray-painting its companion with a reddish stain that covers an area the size of New Mexico?"
September 15, 2016
Mars rover views spectacular layered rock
Newest images from the Curiosity Rover: Martian landscapes and rocky outcrops that look almost like the U.S. Southwest.
September 14, 2016
Impossibly bright monster pulsars
Astronomers in Japan used a supercomputer and a hypothetical neutron star to explain blinking, enigmatic objects known as Ultra Luminous X-ray pulsars.
September 12, 2016
Glorious new images show Titan’s dunes
Cassini spacecraft will begin its grand finale at Saturn in 2017. This was one of Cassini's last close flybys of Saturn's large moon, Titan.
September 11, 2016
Fun! Enterprise Nebulae
More examples of pareidolia, seeing familiar objects in unrelated patterns. These 2 nebulae will be close to the hearts of Star Trek fans.
September 9, 2016
