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Ancient 'guest star' may mark rare collision of stellar corpses

Centuries after Chinese and Japanese astronomers spotted a bright light in their skies, astronomers have pinned it to a stellar collision that unleashed a rare supernova 850 years ago. A researcher has photographed the structure of Pa 30, ...

Star survives spaghettification by black hole

A captured star has experienced multiple close encounters with a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy — and possibly even survived having material ripped away by immense gravitational tidal forces. The destruction of a star by the gravitational ...

Watch 2 astronauts perform 1st spacewalk of 2023 on Friday

Two astronauts will conduct the first spacewalk of 2023 on Friday morning (Jan. 20), and you can watch the action live. NASA's Nicole Mann and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are scheduled to step outside the International Space ...

SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch spotted from space station (photo)

The launch of SpaceX's most powerful rocket over the weekend was visible from orbit. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy lifted off Sunday (Jan. 15) from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending multiple satellites aloft for the U.S. Space Force on a mission ...

Astronomers capture radio signal from ancient galaxy at record-breaking distance

The detection of the hydrogen line from such a galaxy so far away — and therefore so early in the universe — by the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India could mean astronomers are ready to begin investigating the formation of the earliest stars and ...

Brilliant green comet loses part of its tail to solar storm in this stunning astrophotographer photo

An image taken by an Austrian comet hunter reveals a disconnection in a stunning green comet's tail that may have been caused by turbulent space weather. Seasoned astrophotographer Michael Jäger took this image of the Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) on Tuesday ...

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How to Watch the 'Green Comet' in Night Skies

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What is the comet's name? The comet is known as C/2022 E3 (Z.T.F.) because astronomers discovered it in March 2022 using a telescope on Palomar Mountain in California called the Zwicky Transient Facility ...

Inside NASA's Plan to One-Up the James Webb Space Telescope

As Mark Clampin, director of the agency's astrophysics division, put it during a NASA town hall at the recent American Astronomical Society meeting, the primary science goal of this observatory will be to "survey nearby stars for habitable planets and ...

Light pollution is erasing stars from the night sky at breakneck pace. It's only going to get worse.

Light pollution is brightening up the night sky so fast that stars are virtually disappearing in front of sky-watchers' eyes, a new study has revealed. Where 18 years ago, a star ...

What Is NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory? Inside the Plan to One-Up Webb

Just over a year ago, when NASA's James Webb Space Telescope switched on, dominating headlines of even mainstream media, it felt like the start of a new era. Booted up with infrared sensors and crowned with 18 gold-plated mirrors, the JWST reminded the ...