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And now … a real ISS transit of Saturn
A fake image ran in APOD a few days ago, but this video of an International Space Station transit across the face of Saturn looks real.
January 26, 2016
X-ray view of Earth’s aurora
An ESA space observatory was looking for something else when it caught these X-ray images of an aurora.
January 26, 2016
Loneliest known exoplanet and its star
The exoplanet labeled 2MASS J2126 has the widest orbit of any planet ever found. Its "year" is nearly 1 million Earth-years long.
January 25, 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 25, 2016
Zoom to super luminous Milky Way stars
New Hubble Space Telescope video zooms in on Trumpler 14, a young cluster of hot, massive, bright stars - some of the most luminous stars in our Milky Way galaxy!
January 25, 2016
Are the aliens extinct?
Australian astrobiologists say an early Armageddon on most distant worlds makes advanced lifeforms unlikely. If true, our Milky Way galaxy is a lonely place.
January 24, 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 21, 2016
Cascade of magnetic arches on sun
Take 15 seconds to watch glowing magnetic arches cascade across the solar surface, captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory.
January 21, 2016
Solid evidence for a 9th planet
If it exists, the 9th planet has 10 times the mass of Earth - orbits 20 times farther from the sun than Neptune - and takes 20,000 years to orbit the sun once.
January 20, 2016
Flower blooms in space
Here it is! A flower grown on the International Space station blooms.
January 20, 2016
