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27 days ago

Factories in Space: The Next Industrial Revolution? Factories in space may seem the stuff of science fiction, but top scientists think it might be more than just fantasy. A new "horizon scanning" report for the Royal Society…

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🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Supernova 2025rbs in NGC 7331 🪐 A long time ago in a galaxy 50 million light-years away, a star exploded. Light from that supernova was first detected by telescopes on planet Earth on July 14th though, and the extragalactic t

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8 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Titan Shadow Transit 🪐 very 15 years or so, Saturn's rings are tilted edge-on to our line of sight. As the bright, beautiful ring system grows narrower and fainter it becomes increasingly difficult to see f

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3 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Helix Nebula Deep Field 🪐 Is the Helix Nebula looking at you? No, not in any biological sense, but it does look quite like an eye. The Helix Nebula is so named because it also appears that you are looking…

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6 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Globular Cluster Omega Centauri 🪐 Globular star cluster Omega Centauri packs about 10 million stars much older than the Sun into a volume some 150 light-years in diameter. Also known as NGC 5139, at a distance of 15,000 light-year

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7 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Twelve Years of Kappa Cygnids 🪐 Meteors from the Kappa Cygnid meteor shower are captured in this time-lapse composite skyscape. The minor meteor shower, with a radiant not far from its eponymous st

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12 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Lunar Nearside 🪐 About 1,300 images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft's wide angle camera were used to compose this spectacular view of a familiar face - the lunar nearside. But…

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15 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: 3I/ATLAS 🪐 Discovered on July 1 with the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert, System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, 3I/ATLAS is so designated as the third…

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11 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: Cat's Paw Nebula from Webb Space Telescope 🪐 Nebulas are perhaps as famous for being identified with familiar shapes as perhaps cats are for getting into trouble. Still, no known cat could have created the vast Cat's Paw Nebula

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10 days ago

🌌 SpacePicture of a Day: A Double Detonation Supernova 🪐 Can some supernovas explode twice? Yes, when the first explosion acts like a detonator for the second. This is a leading hypothesis for the cause of supernova remnant (SNR) 0509-67.5. In this two

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