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Weather permitting, the International Space Station will be making some nicely visible evening and early morning passes ...
The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.
This is the first time the Masai subspecies (Giraffa camelopardalis ssp. tippelskirchi) was assessed on its own—previously, it was included as part of the IUCN Red List’s general giraffe ...
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 ...
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 ...
How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...