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View a brilliant morning star, enjoy dark skies during New Moon, and take in plenty of deep-sky targets in the sky this week.
Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...
The telescope may operate for 20 years, and it's off to a good start. Let's take a look at the best of Webb so far. Here, in no particular order, are 35 of the best Webb images we've seen to date. 1.
Three zodiac signs are entering powerful and transformative portals this Spring. While some signs are embracing new ...
As the cosmic energies align on today, the stars offer unique insights and opportunities for each zodiac sign. With the Sun ...
The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...
Well, in the predawn hours of April 25 it literally will be thanks to a double conjunction that will see Saturn, Venus and ...
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers have detected a new sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a bright G-type star. The newfound alien world, ...
By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...
To the right of the Moon is 1st-magnitude Saturn, which will be harder to spot the lighter the sky becomes. Neptune also lies close to the Moon — in fact, our satellite passes 1.9° due north of ...
A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...
an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick, hot atmosphere. TOI-270 d ... Saturn's Moon Titan Could Harbor Life ...