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Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.
The green-hued fireball was seen over North America at 2:29 EDT (0629 GMT) on June 25, blazing a northerly path through the ...
Object Details Artist Mark Matthews, born Youngstown, OH 1954 Luce Center Label The Exotic Mammal Pelt Spheres were made using the Swedish Graal process. A photograph of the flat animal pelt is ...
Astronomy on MSN10d
Brought to light
Federico Vittorio Mantovani, taken from Valico di San Fermo, Genoa, Italy IC 342 is a relatively nearby galaxy, just 11 ...
Astronomy on MSN10d
Hide and seek
Federico Vittorio Mantovani, taken from Valico di San Fermo, Genoa, Italy IC 342 is a relatively nearby galaxy, just 11 ...
Weather permitting, the International Space Station will be making some nicely visible evening and early morning passes ...
In additiion to Ptolemaic constellations, the constellations Lynx, Columba Noachi, Leo Min, Monocerus, Camelopardalis, Mons Menalus, and Antonius are represented. The 1596 Nova in Cetus and the Via ...
It wouldn’t be the last time Hubble would shift the paradigm. In 1929, he reported that all but a few galaxies are moving away from us, with more-distant galaxies moving faster than nearby ones. The ...
NGC 1961 Residing in the constellation Camelopardalis, about 190 million light-years from Earth, NGC 1961 is a massive spiral galaxy with an unusual, lopsided appearance. Known also as Arp 184 in the ...
The immense diversity of the natural world never fails to astound us, and one of the most spectacular examples of adaptation is the long neck present in many animal species. Animals with long necks ...