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The Best Space Images of 2023
Space is an inky black yonder… but for the countless light sources that pepper the billions of light-years that human instruments can see. Thanks to ground-based telescopes and observatories parked millions of miles from Earth, 2023 has been a terrific year for space imagery. Astronomers captured fascinating new views of globular clusters, star systems, and…
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The Webb Space Telescope’s Best Images, One Year On
The Webb Space Telescope launched to space in December 2021 with an ambitious goal: providing scientists with a deeper, sharper view of the history of the universe. It took the telescope a month to arrive at its location in space, a region called L2 that sits one million miles from Earth, and another six months…
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What’s The Best Astronomical Object In Your Zodiac Sign?
It’s true that astrology is not science – there is no evidence to support that personal traits or mystical truths have anything to do with the Sun and the planets’ locations in the sky at the time you were born. But there is an intersection with astronomy, the real science behind the Sun, the stars,…