solar system
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Gaze in Wonder at These Stunning Views of the Cosmos
The cosmos is a hostile but beautiful place; from Earth, its phenomena — from our Sun and the aurorae it generates to nebulae and distant galaxies — are worth capturing.
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How (and When) to Watch the Massive K2 Comet Pass Earth
The comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) — or “K2″ for short — was first spotted five years ago, in May 2017 by the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA reports. The agency shared an image of the comet taken on June 20th, 2022, when it was (relatively) near open star cluster IC 4665 and bright star Beta Ophiuchi,…
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New Milky Way Visualisations Show the Dance of Millions of Stars in Incredible Detail
The European Space Agency’s Gaia observatory has just unleashed a “treasure trove” of data on nearly 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, revealing how fast they move toward or away from us, as well as unusual ‘starquakes’ that change the shapes of stars.
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Europe’s Space Agency Needs You to Find the Differences Between These Pictures
The Rosetta spacecraft collected tons of data on one comet. It’s up to you to decipher it.