Ukrainian amateur discovers a bright, new comet now in the evening sky.
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September’s night sky features the iconic Summer Triangle, almost directly overhead at nightfall, and a newcomer to the evening sky: the planet Saturn, which will rise in the east not long after sunset. Get tips for viewing these and lots more stargazing info by downloading this month’s Sky Tour podcast!
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The European spacecraft en route to Jupiter, named JUICE, completed its only flyby of the planet Venus
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Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury continue at dawn. The evening Moon meets Saturn while Fomalhaut looks on. Saturn's own biggest moon casts its shadow onto Saturn's globe, for one of the last times for the next 15 years.
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Astronomers have pinpointed the location of an one-time fast radio burst to a spiral arm of a nearby galaxy.
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With the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have spotted a planet forming around a star 430 light-years away.
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Twelve years after they were first discovered, astronomers are coming to grips with fast X-ray transients (FXTs) — energetic explosions in the distant universe lasting from minutes to hours. At […]
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In this roundup of recent news, birds react to light pollution and a respected mirror maker calls it a day.
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The Kite of Boötes tips. The Great Square of Pegasus balances en pointe. Cassiopeia climbs. And Saturn muscles up in the east.
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The James Webb Space Telescope shows intriguing new details in the Apep Nebula, created by the colliding winds of two dying stars.
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Astronomers have spotted a new small moon for Uranus in images from earlier this year.
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How a determined amateur astronomer may have hit on the identity of a Cepheid variable double star described by a beloved author.
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A "little red dot" galaxy from when the universe was roughly half a billion years old shows signs of the most distant black hole known.
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Scouring old data from NASA’s Cassini mission revealed puzzling atmospheric stripes that could help probe Saturn’s icy moon.
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New James Webb Space Telescope observations of the third world in the seven-planet TRAPPIST-1 system rule out a variety of atmospheres.
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Saturn glows through the evening near the Andromegasus Dipper. Venus and Jupiter, drawing apart, still light the dawn dramatically. The Moon joins them.
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Astronomers at the South African MeerKAT observatory have discovered the most distant flash of radio waves to date, most likely stemming from activity around a magnetar.
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Chaotic turbulence in primordial clouds of gas may have prevented the formation of extremely massive stars, according to new simulations by Taiwanese astronomers. The early universe consisted primarily of hydrogen […]
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Set an alarm and take a peek east in early dawn to follow Venus and Jupiter through their spectacular conjunction this week.
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Direct images from the James Webb Space Telescope show what could be a Saturn-mass planet around Alpha Centauri.
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