‘Best planet parade in half a century’ visible this week & falls during almighty galaxy season – three tips to see them
STARGAZERS are in for a treat this month as a rare planet parade falls in Andromeda galaxy season. “One of the best planet ...
'Planet parade' marches on in Connecticut's skies, just as 'galaxy season' begins for stargazers
Watchers of the Connecticut skies should be able to watch the planets line up for 'parade' in February, and the start of ...
What it really means being light-years away!
The observable universe is about 93 billion light-years in diameter.” This can be explained as the distance from the Earth to ...
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"Super-Earth" found just 20 light-years away is our best chance so far to find alien life
HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...
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February skies of the Gulf Coast
Just east of Betelgeuse is the fine binocular cluster NGC 2244. But the much fainter Rosette Nebula that lies around the ...
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Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it?
With a minimum of 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, that means there are at least 25 billion places where life could conceivably take hold in our galaxy ... to find an Earth-like planet orbiting ...
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Two enormous "bubbles" discovered towering above and below our Milky Way galaxy
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Check Out NASA’s New Image of the Brilliant Bullseye Galaxy, the Aftermath of a Rare Cosmic Collision
After a blue dwarf galaxy shot through it like an arrow, the large Bullseye now has nine rings—six more than any other galaxy ...
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20 jaw-dropping places on Earth that look like an alien planet
There are many places on Earth so weird they make you feel like you're on another planet. . | Credit: Left to right: Wysiati, ...
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Straight shot: Hubble investigates galaxy with nine rings
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye! The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an 'arrow' -- a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy -- shot ...
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20 jaw-dropping places on Earth that look like an alien planet
There are many places on Earth so weird they make you feel like you're on another planet. . | Credit: Left to right: Wysiati, WanRu Chen, Ropelato Photography; EarthScapes, jp2pix.com, all via ...