Astronomy

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This Amazing Interactive Shows What The Sun Would Look Like Anywhere, Anytime

These simple gifs show the motion of the Sun through the sky, anywhere on Earth

That little blue dot floating in the black is every single one of us.

NASA Goes All the Way to Saturn, Takes a Stunning Selfie

Here it is: Earth, as seen from Saturn

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Smile! A Satellite Around Saturn Is About To Take Your Picture

NASA is taking of Earth as seen from Saturn

We’re not lying. It’s really in this photo.

Can You Spot the Mars Rover in This Gorgeous Photo?

It's in there somewhere, we swear!

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The End of the World Might Just Look Like This

Artist Ron Miller presents several scenarios—most of them scientifically plausible—of landscapes imperiled and of Earth meeting its demise

Two neutron stars violently collide—potentially the sourse of all heavy elements in the universe, including gold.

All the Gold in the Universe Could Come From the Collisions of Neutron Stars

When two stars recently collided, astronomers landed on a new theory about where gold and other heavy elements originate

Neptune’s new moon, S/2004 N 1, is the planet’s 14th.

In Archival Photos, Astronomer Discovers Neptune’s 14th Moon

The little moon had ignored detection until a veteran moon hunter spotted it in old photos

Artist’s conception of a broken-up asteroid

Laser Bees Could Save Us From Asteroids

But, sadly, they are not genetically altered bees with laser-beam stingers

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Scientists Just Measured the True Color of a Far-Off Planet

For the first time, scientists have measured the color of a far off planet

The Sun’s tail, or ‘heliotail,’ as seen by IBEX.

For the First Time, NASA Took a Photo of the Sun’s Tail

Stretched by the interstellar medium, the Sun's tail stretches far behind us

Looking west from the Apollo 11 landing site.

Legislators Want to Put a National Park on the Moon

A bill in the House of Representatives wants to protect the Apollo landing sites. But can it?

P4 and P5, now Kerberos and Styx. Photo: NASA, ESA, M. Showalter

Astronomers Pull Rank, Name Pluto’s Moons After the Underworld, Not Star Trek

Say hello to Pluto's newest moons, Styx and Kerberos

Phobos

Mars’ Tiny-Looking Moon Is Slowly Crash-Landing on the Planet

Mars' moon Phobos may look small in the sky, but it won't for long

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The Big Bang: Enthralling Photos of Exploding Bullets

Houston photographer Deborah Bay captures the violent power of projectiles lodged in bulletproof plexiglass

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One of Our Nearest Neighbor Stars Has At Least Six Planets, And Three May Be Habitable

Three potentially habitable planets orbit a star just 22 light years away

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This Stunning, Six-and-a-Half Hour Video of the Night Sky Will Transport You to the Desert

A Supermoon in 2009 rises below the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

Get Set for Saturday’s Supermoon

This Saturday's Supermoon will be the most Supermoon-y Supermoon of the year

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Check Out This Beautiful Gigapixel Panorama of Mars

This huge gigapixel panorama gives a stunning view of the red planet

A New 3D Map of the Universe Covers More Than 100 Million Light-Years

The map makes infinity seem comprehensible by depicting the structures of galaxy clusters, dark matter and open patches of lonely space

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Spaceships Made of Plastic Could Carry Us to Mars

Plastic is way better than aluminum at blocking cosmic rays

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