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Leonid Meteor Shower Expected To Peak Monday
The Leonid meteor shower, the result of debris left in the orbit of Comet Tempel-Tuttle that hits Earth’s atmosphere each year around mid-November, is expected to peak on Monday.
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Look hard and you can see Comet Lovejoy lighting up the night sky
Is your New Year's resolution to stop staring down at your phone so much? Here's a reason to look up. Comet Lovejoy, a bright celestial ball of dust and ice probably born in the Oort Cloud, is currently traveling across the skies of the Northern Hemisphere. While photographer Gerald Rhemann snagged a shot of Lovejoy on December 22 (from the Southern Hemisphere), casual observers in the top half of the world might be able to enjoy the show into February.
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The Perseid meteor shower — the year's best — is tonight. Here's how to watch it.
The Perseid meteor shower — the most active meteor shower of the year — is coming Wednesday night. As Earth plows through a trail of dust and rock left behind by the comet Swift-Tuttle, tiny pieces of debris will enter our atmosphere and burn up, producing dazzling shooting stars. Starting around 11 pm local time (regardless of your time zone) on Wednesday, you'll be able to see as many as 50 of these meteors per hour — with the show aided by the low amount of light coming from the barely...
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How to See the Draconid Meteors at Their Peak
Skywatchers have a chance to see some "shooting stars" this week with the annual Draconid meteor shower. The meteor display, which peaks overnight on Thursday and Friday (Oct. 8 and 9) is caused by the remains of a comet raining down on Earth.
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Guardians of the Pole
Kochab and Pherkad, the stars which mark the outer edge of the Little Dipper, are known as the Guardians since they circle Polaris.
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The Dark Side
In 1610, Galileo Galilei published a small book describing astronomical observations that he had made of the skies above Padua. His homemade telescopes had less magnifying and resolving power than most beginners’ telescopes sold today, yet with them he made astonishing discoveries: that the moon has mountains and other topographical features; that Jupiter is orbited by satellites, which he called planets; and that the Milky Way is made up of individual stars.
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Search For Intelligent Aliens Near Bizarre Dimming Star Has Begun
Astronomers are using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA), a system of radio dishes about 300 miles (483 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco, to hunt for signals coming from the vicinity of KIC 8462852, a star that lies 1,500 light-years from Earth.
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Job's Coffin
Asterism in the constellation Delphinus
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Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD
NASA Goddard. (4K)
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M17 (NGC 6618) - also known as Omega, Swan, Horseshoe, or Lobster Nebula
Starforming nebula in Sagittarius
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The 2013 Geminids Meteor Shower over Joshua Tree
Henry Jun Wah Lee, Evosia
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The secrets behind all those gorgeous photos of space
NASA’s photo archive is a click away and even the Curiosity Rover is on Instagram, but how are photos of space made? By Laura Mallonee.
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M19 (NGC 6273)
Globular cluster in Ophiucus
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M20 (NGC 6514,Trifid Nebula)
Emission and reflection nebula with open star cluster in Sagittarius
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The tiny island of shooting stars
The offbeat Channel Island of Sark has no cars or street lights – making for starry skies so magical, they’ve been recognised with a major award, a new observatory, even an Enya album.
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M22 (NGC6656)
Globular cluster in Sagittarius.
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M23 (NGC 6494)
Open cluster in Sagittarius
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What You Need to Know About Comet Catalina
Here's how and when to witness this once-in-a-lifetime comet.
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That bizarre-looking star just got a lot weirder — and yes, it could be aliens
Three months ago, news broke that a giant "alien megastructure" could exist around a bizarre-looking star 1,500 light-years away. While the prospect of aliens was first launched by Penn State astronomer Jason Wright, almost everyone in the astronomy community agreed that the chances that this was the case were "very low." Now, the latest investigations into this strange star by Louisiana State University astronomer Bradley Schaefer have reignited...
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M24 (Sagittarius Star Cloud, Milky Way Patch, Delle Caustiche, IC 4715)
Located in the constellation Sagittarius, M24 contains open clusters NGC 6603 and NGC 6595, Barnard 92 and 93, Collinder 469, IC 1283-1284, NGC 6589/90 and planetary nebula NGC 6567.
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