In mid-January 2025, ESA and NASA’s SOHO spacecraft captured comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) passing just 8 million miles from the Sun, with the comet’s
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Scientists Discover Near-Earth Asteroid Likely Ejected from Moon’s Surface.
Asteroids typically come from the main asteroid belt, but a small group of near-Earth objects may actually originate from the Moon, ejected by past
Continue readingAstronomy Update for January 2025: Celestial Events and Discoveries Light Up the Sky.
In a year that promises to be a visual spectacle for skywatchers, 2025 is already off to a stellar start with a plethora of
Continue readingNew Method Detects Small Asteroids in Main Belt, Offering Insight for Planetary Defense.
An international team of physicists, led by MIT researchers, has developed a groundbreaking method to detect small asteroids, as small as 10 meters in
Continue readingNASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Reveals New Details of the Orion Nebula’s Star Formation.
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the Orion Nebula (Messier 42, M42), the nearest star-forming region to Earth, located about 1,500 light-years away.
Continue readingAstronomers Detect New Phenomena Near Supermassive Black Hole.
Radio images of 1ES 1927+654 reveal emerging plasma jets erupting from the galaxy’s central black hole, first detected in February 2024 after a strong
Continue readingThe Star That Changed the Universe: A Centennial Celebration of Edwin Hubble's Discovery.
In honor of Edwin Hubble’s discovery of the Cepheid variable star V1 in the Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American
Continue readingNew Research Offers Hope for Predicting Solar Flares.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of coronal loops above an active region on the Sun in mid-January 2012, using the 171 angstrom
Continue reading3D Maps of Molecular Clouds Shed Light on Galactic Center Dynamics.
A groundbreaking study has produced the first 3D maps of molecular clouds in the heart of the Milky Way, offering new insights into star formation
Continue readingThe Mysterious "Blue Lurker": NASA's Hubble Reveals a Rare Stellar Phenomenon.
The Evolution of a “Blue Lurker” Star in a Triple System. Panel 1: A triple star system with two Sun-like stars in a close orbit,
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