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NASA will stop using derogatory names for space objects
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (306+ words) Some 5,000 light-years from Earth, there's a picturesque, dying star that's shedding its mighty gaseous layers. Until recently, NASA referred to this deep space object, known as a planetary nebula, as the "Eskimo Nebula." "As the scientific community works to identify…...
Moon phase today explained: What the Moon will look like on July 4, 2026
1+ week, 2+ day ago (360+ words) Mashable Tonight marks day 19 of the lunar cycle, with the Moon continuing through its Waning Gibbous phase As we get closer to the next phase, the Last Quarter, the illuminated portion of the Moon will continue to appear smaller each…...
Moon phase today explained: What the Moon will look like on July 3, 2026
1+ week, 3+ day ago (323+ words) Moon phase today: What the Moon will look like on July 3 Mashable Keen skywatchers will see a Waning Gibbous Moon again tonight as the lunar cycle continues and we further away the Full Moon and closer to the New Moon…...
Spacecraft films unprecedented view of sun shooting particles into space
4+ week, 1+ day ago (250+ words) Scientists are still unraveling the mysteries behind our torrid star. The clip below, which zooms in on this stream of particles from an event in October 2022, was made possible by the spacecraft's coronagraph, called Metis. As you can see, a…...
NASA Hubble survey helps untangle the history of the Milky Way's core
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (510+ words) The Milky Way's core doesn't look like the ancient stellar graveyard many astronomers once thought it was. At the heart of a massive new survey from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are mapping one of the most crowded regions in…...
NASA just walked away from its lunar space station dream. Here's why.
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (739+ words) NASA will shelve its plan for a small lunar space station in favor of building a base directly on the moon. For years, the U.S. space agency talked up Gateway, a station that would circle the moon and act as both…...
Webb telescope zooms in on a black hole's messy feeding zone
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (493+ words) Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have mapped where dust collects around a nearby supermassive black hole — and found that almost all of it sits in a compact ring feeding the object. The study focuses on the Circinus galaxy,…...
How AI helped astronomers uncover one truly weird supernova
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (731+ words) Scientists have discovered a peculiar supernova that may have resulted from a star's misguided attempt to swallow a black hole. The new case, soon to be published in The Astrophysical Journal, supports the idea that massive stars don't just explode…...