Scientists detect record-setting explosion outside our galaxy
Researchers conducted the first-ever near-infrared analysis of an extragalactic recurrent nova and found it is one of the ...
7 breathtaking images of Star Formation captured by NASA
Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...
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Our near galactic neighbor might have a supermassive black hole
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...
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The Sky This Week from March 21 to 28: Galilean moon action
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 21By 10 P.M. local daylight time, the constellation Canes Venatici the Hunting Dogs is some 45° high in the east. Nestled under the ...
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'Shocking' nova explosion of dead star was 100 times brighter than the sun
The findings reveal unusual chemical signatures and offer new insights into the behavior of novas beyond the Milky Way.
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Observe the brightest deep-sky objects
The Pleiades, Ptolemy's Cluster, the Large Magellanic Cloud — here's how to center the sky's brightest deep-sky wonders in ...
10 mesmerising images of nebulae shared by NASA Hubble Space Telescope
After NASA repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in 1999, the Heritage Project used the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 to capture an image of NGC 1999 in the Orion constellation. Hubble's image of NGC ...