November’s full beaver moon will shine bright this weekend
By Taylor Nicioli | CNN November’s full moon, known as the beaver moon, will shine bright in the night sky starting Sunday, offering a dazzling sight to behold. The moon …
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An astronaut gets a celestial burial
Space scientist Michael Lampton, on the far right, inside NASA’s Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1) Module, which was carried by the Space Shuttle in 1992 during its STS-45 …
Starquakes Might Solve the Mysteries of Stellar Magnetism
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That was a surprise—and a possible indication that something crucial was missing in those models: magnetism. Stellar Symmetry Last year, Gang Li, an asteroseismologist now at KU Leuven, went digging …
Webb’s Spectacular New Photo Reveals Mysteries in the Heart of Our Galaxy
“The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in …
How a Stanford professor is organizing the search for alien life
On a cold December night in 1977 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, a mysterious hovering object was reported to be flying overhead. Then a luminous hot molten rock fell to earth. …
Dr. Jessie Christiansen Wants to Help You Discover the Next Exoplanet
It’s hard to believe that just four decades ago, we had no idea whether planets existed outside our solar system. Scientists discovered the first exoplanet in 1992, and since then …
Webb and Hubble Deliver the Most Colorful View of the Universe Ever
Galaxy cluster MACS0416 (Hubble and Webb composite image) | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Spain), J. D’Silva (U. Western Australia), A. Koekemoer (STScI), …
The Milky Way’s Stars Reveal Its Turbulent Past
To make maps of these structures, astronomers turn to individual stars. Each star’s composition records its birthplace, age, and natal ingredients, so studying starlight enables a form of galactic cartography—as …
The rapid rise of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet business
Elon Musk’s SpaceX is known for its frequent launches, which now dominate the space industry. But the satellites that the rockets send to space are just as important for the …
Astronaut Frank Borman dies; Apollo 8 commander paved way for moon landing
Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. — Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing …