Showing 10,000 galaxies, the overwhelming Hubble Ultra Deep Field is the most amazing, most humbling image in history, demonstrating how tiny and precious we are....
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August 12, 2009--A meteor slices through the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower on August 11, 2009, over Vinton, California. The Perseid meteor shower,...
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The space telescope of the NASA Spitzer found evidence of a collision between two planets around a young star. The star around which it was identified the impact has...
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"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better" -- Albert Einstein (CNN) -- It may not be possible to travel back in time, but...
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In a celestial feat any magician would appreciate, Saturn will make its wide but thin ring system disappear from our view Aug. 11. Saturn's rings, loaded with...
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Venus Express has charted the first map of Venus's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths. The new map hints that our neighbouring world may once have been...
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40 years ago, three human beings - with the help of many thousands of others - left our planet on a successful journey to our Moon, setting foot on another world for...
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Soon we may get the first ever glimpse of the dark side of the sun. Well, no, there’s no actual dark side of a luminous ball of burning gas, but there is an...
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Even though it's in the middle of a post-makeover checkout, the Hubble Space Telescope was turned toward Jupiter this week to capture a picture of the bruise...
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Jupiter's been in the news a lot recently, as anywhere there's on ocean-sized explosion tends to be. The recent impact (and detonation) of an asteroid...
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On December 27, 2004, the radiation from an explosion on the surface of the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reached Earth. It was the brightest event known to have been sighted...
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