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Best photos of moon, Spica, Mars on July 5
A wonderful conjunction on Saturday night. Thanks to all who submitted photos.
July 6, 2014
ISS photobombed the sun this week
Spaceships and sunspots! Two great photos of ISS transiting the sun on June 30.
July 4, 2014
Earthlike planet found orbiting double stars
Located 3,000 light-years away, this frozen world probably isn’t habitable, but the method for locating it might let other habitable planets be found.
July 3, 2014
Violent origins for an Australian meteorite
It was apparently born in an asteroid collision 3.6 billion years ago.
July 2, 2014
Happy anniversary, Cassini spacecraft
June 30 is the 10-year anniversary of the Cassini spacecraft's successful insertion into orbit around Saturn. Imaging team leader Carolyn Porco expresses the wonder.
June 30, 2014
How the Pillars of Creation were created
The famous Hubble 'Pillars of Creation' image was made in 1995. New research suggests how these finger-like structures of interstellar gas and dust were formed.
June 27, 2014
Puzzling X-rays in Perseus might point to dark matter
Astronomers have detected a mysterious X-ray anomaly that might be a signal of dark matter, the elusive, invisible stuff that makes up most of our universe.
June 25, 2014
Monster black hole trio discovered in distant galaxy
Researchers have discovered a distant galaxy with not one, but three supermassive black holes at its center.
June 25, 2014
Earth-sized diamond in space is coolest white dwarf star
The coldest, dimmest white dwarf star ever detected is so cool that its carbon has crystallized, forming - in effect - an Earth-sized diamond in space.
June 24, 2014
Should the Higgs boson have caused our universe to collapse?
British cosmologists have concluded that the universe should not have lasted for more than a second after the Big Bang.
June 24, 2014
