Our Moon is weird. It’s pretty big compared with Earth, for one. It has a way lower density than Earth, but seems to have some similarities in chemical composition to our planet. It’s also two-faced: The near side looks a lot different than the far side, as you can see from the Lunar Reconnaissance …
On the night of May 10th, Saturn will be at its closest point to Earth for 2014 and the best it has appeared since 2007. Slooh will broadcast the event live from telescopes located off the west coast of Africa in the Canary Islands on May 10th starting at 6:30 PM PDT / 9:30 PM …
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Milky Way’s magnetic fingerprint ESA and the Planck Collaboration Our galaxy’s magnetic field is revealed in a new image from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Planck satellite. This image was compiled from the first all-sky observations of “polarized“ light emitted by interstellar dust in the Milky Way. Light is a familiar form of energy, and …
This artist’s illustration shows the hypervelocity star cluster HVGC-1 escaping from the supergiant elliptical galaxy M87. HVGC-1 is the first runaway star cluster discovered by astronomers. It is fated to drift through intergalactic space. Galaxy M87 has thrown an entire star cluster toward us at more than 2 million mph, and it’s now on a …
Observers in southern Australia will witness the Moon “take a bite” out of the Sun on April 29, just as those in Europe saw January 4, 2011. Hinrich Bäsemann By Liz Kruesi | Published: Thursday, April 24, 2014 While a ring of sunlight is visible to the penguins in Antarctica, human observers in southern Australia …
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