This month features the Perseid meteor shower, one of the two best displays of “shooting stars” all year. These meteors are caused when little bits of grit...
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Comet NEOWISE was down to magnitude 5.0 or 5.5 by July 30th and fading by about a half-magnitude a day as expected. Finder chart through 0:00 August 5th UT...
The north pole of Ganymede, as seen in the infrared by Juno on December 26, 2019. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ SwRI/ ASI/ INAF/ JIRAM. EarthSky’s yearly crowd...
The launch of Perseverance. NASA/Joel Kowsky Now there are three. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket roared to life at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
Telescopes at the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) in Chile. Astronomers used these telescopes to find the “lost” world NGTS-11b. This image shows star...
Uranus and Neptune, the so-called ice giants, are the only major planets in our solar system that aren’t easily visible to the unaided eye. If you...
Globular clusters were among the first structures to form in the early universe. Some of these ancient stellar cities are still with us today, circulating in...
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover will launch on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 541 rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft looked back at Pluto after its closest approach on July 14, 2015, and snapped this photo of the planet’s hazy...
The beautiful Pillars of Creation, part of an active star-forming region within the Eagle Nebula. This image – from the Hubble Space Telescope in 2017 – is one...
