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How the sun’s motion affects meteor showers
Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...
Rare planetary alignment set to create a 'smiley face' in the sky on April 25 — here’s how to witness it
Early on April 25, 2025, a rare triple conjunction of Venus, Saturn, and a crescent Moon will grace the morning sky. This ...
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What’s Going On Inside Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon?
Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure — and reveal how little is understood about ...
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Venus, Saturn, and the Moon to form rare smiling face in the sky on April 25
Skywatchers worldwide will witness a rare celestial event for a brief time on April 25 when Venus, Saturn, and a crescent Moon will align in the early morning sky, creating a striking triangular ...
Rare Exoplanet Orbits Two Stars at a Wild 90-Degree Angle
In addition to the exoplanet’s polar orbit, the brown dwarf pair itself is extraordinarily rare. They form an eclipsing ...
New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths
A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...
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‘Tatooine’-like planet orbits two stars ― but at a weird angle
Like the Star Wars planet, a distant world follows a path around two stars, both of them small, cool bodies called brown ...
One Orbit, One Everest Lost: A Planet Evaporates Into a 9-Million-Kilometer Tail
Astronomers from MIT have uncovered a dramatic celestial spectacle: a Mercury-sized exoplanet that is rapidly disintegrating ...
Astronomers discover a planet that's rapidly disintegrating, producing a comet-like tail
The astronomers spotted the planet using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an MIT-led mission that ...