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Artist’s illustration of a magnetar, a neutron star with powerful magnetic fields. ESA Pulsars have historically been classified into different categories —...
View larger. | Near-Earth asteroid 2020 OY4 on July 27, 2020. At the imaging time, the asteroid was about 155,000 miles (250,000 km) from Earth, 2/3s of the...
Odd Radio Circle – aka ORC – number 4. The ASKAP radio telescope in Australia spotted the 4 ORCS in 2019. Image via Norris et al./ arXiv/ ScienceAlert...
EarthSky’s yearly crowd-funding campaign is in progress. In 2020, we are donating 8.5% of all incoming revenues to No Kids Hungry. Click to learn more and...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is folded and ready for its final suite of testing. The Webb is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Once in orbit...
Comet NEOWISE: Still there at dusk. . . . Comet NEOWISE continues to hang dimly in the northwest at the end of twilight, though it’s fading. Plan to look...
Maryland began the 18th century as a plantation colony and slave society. Deprived of liberty and deadened by monotony, exhaustion, and the constant threat of...
The launch of a Long March 5 rocket carrying Tianwen 1 CNSA A Long March 5 rocket roared to life early this morning at 12:41 a.m. EDT / 4:41 UT, launching from...
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has captured an image of a young, Sun-like star and its two companions. Direct images of...