Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper
In the meantime, there remains a chance to glimpse Gaia through a small telescope before its final retirement. Uwe Lammers, ...
Bright Comet's Tail Dazzles in 'Bleeding' Images from NASA Spacecraft
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.
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Bright comet G3 ATLAS seen from space in new astronaut photo
In the photo from the space station, the comet is captured just above Earth’s horizon, which is illuminated by a bright light ...
‘Prettiest Comet I’ve Ever Seen’: Watch A Comet Graze The Sun
G3 (ATLAS) showed off its spectacular tail plumage to NASA spacecraft when it flew close to the sun this month.
ESA spacecraft creating '3D map of the Milky Way' to be shut down
The ESA will conduct technology tests for several weeks after Gaia’s observations end, before the spacecraft leaves its orbit ...
Farewell Gaia! ESA's Decade-Old Telescope Retires After Delivering Best Map Of The Milky Way
The European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia telescope has completed its objective - making the most detailed and precise map of ...
Exoplanets around red dwarfs face extreme space weather, Chandra finds
Planets around other stars need to be prepared for extreme weather conditions, according to a new study from NASA's Chandra X ...
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Are James Webb Space Telescope images really so colorful?
When Pagan and DePasquale first receive the images, they appear in black and white. The colors are added to the image later, ...
Hubble’s Stunning Spiral Surprise: A Quasar Discovery That Defies Expectations
Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...
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Check Out the Hubble Space Telescope’s Stunning New View of the Andromeda Galaxy
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
James Webb Space Telescope watches planet-forming dust shells zooming through space
The shells of carbon-rich dust are expanding outward into space at the breakneck velocity of 1,600 miles per second.
Bright comet's tail dazzles in images from spacecraft
From Jan. 11 to 15, 2025, a bright comet surged through images from the ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) spacecraft. Called C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), the comet ...