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Zoom in on the Omega Nebula, star birthplace
This video was created from images captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT.) Zoom into the dusty pink core of the Omega Nebula, star nursery.
January 5, 2012
View from space: Comet Lovejoy video
Watch a video of how Comet Lovejoy looked to astronauts on the ISS
January 4, 2012
GRAIL spacecraft will use lunar gravity to peer inside moon
The GRAIL mission will study the moon's gravitational field via minute differences in the distance between the two craft as they orbit above the moon's surface.
January 3, 2012
New Year’s Eve fireball seen in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico
Scientists believe the fireball seen New Year's Eve 2011 came from the asteroid belt. It disintegrated 82 km (51 miles) above Earth's surface.
January 1, 2012
Two GRAIL spacecraft on final approach to moon
The GRAIL spacecraft will use the moon's own gravity to study the lunar interior. They'll enter orbit New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
December 28, 2011
Comet Lovejoy survives encounter with sun
As it swept near the sun in early December 2011, Comet Lovejoy defied expectations and survived its close pass of the sun to become a Christmas comet.
December 25, 2011
Earth-size planets spotted beyond our solar system
The newly discovered Earth-size planets, Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be in the habitable zone - that is, to have liquid water.
December 20, 2011
Will a nearby supernova harm life on Earth in 2012? Nah.
A supernova in our galaxy would have to be within 50 light-years to harm life on Earth. Likelihood that will happen? Zero, astronomers say.
December 19, 2011
Doomed gas cloud stretched as nears Milky Way black hole
It'll come closest to the black hole in 2013. Astronomers see the gas cloud being stretched - astronomers say "spaghettified" - into an elongated shape.
December 17, 2011
White dwarf at heart of closest supernova in 25 years
"Supernova 2011fe is like the Rosetta Stone of Type Ia supernovae," said Shri Kulkarni, who studies it. Scientists said a white dwarf resides in its center.
December 15, 2011
