Full moon, comet starring in night sky show this weekend
A full moon and comet share double billing in a special night sky show this weekend.
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NASA adds up heavy rainfall from southeastern US severe weather
Severe thunderstorms spawned tornadoes and generated flooding rainfall over the Southeast on Monday evening, Jan. 2, 2017. Using satellite data, NASA analyzed the rainfall from the outbreak and found up to a foot of rain ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 4, 2017
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NASA adds up heavy rainfall from southeastern U.S. severe weather
Severe thunderstorms spawned tornadoes and generated flooding rainfall over the Southeast on Monday evening, Jan. 2, 2017. Using satellite data, NASA analyzed the rainfall from the outbreak and found up to a foot of rain ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 4, 2017
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Hubble spies spiral galaxy
Spiral galaxy NGC 3274 is a relatively faint galaxy located over 20 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (The Lion).
Astronomy
Nov 23, 2016
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Record-breaking faint satellite galaxy of the Milky Way discovered
An international team led by researchers from Tohoku University has found an extremely faint dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. The team's discovery is part of the ongoing Subaru Strategic Survey using Hyper Suprime-Cam. ...
Astronomy
Nov 22, 2016
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Image: Hubble spins a web into the Red Spider Nebula
Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula called the Red Spider Nebula, located some 3,000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius.
Astronomy
Oct 24, 2016
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Will our black hole eat the Milky Way?
Want to hear something cool? There's a black hole at the center of the Milky Way. And not just any black hole, it's a supermassive black hole with more than 4.1 million times the mass of the Sun.
Astronomy
Aug 16, 2016
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Outburst of shooting stars up to 200 mph - meteors per hour
The heavens will be bursting with shooting stars this week.bThursday night into early Friday, the annual Perseid (PUR'-see-ihd) meteor shower is expected to peak with double the normal number of meteors. Scientists call this ...
Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2016
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Image: A Hubble sky full of stars
Located approximately 22,000 light-years away in the constellation of Musca (The Fly), this tightly packed collection of stars—known as a globular cluster—goes by the name of NGC 4833. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ...
Astronomy
Aug 8, 2016
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Image: Young star offers a glimpse of the sun's past
It may look like a star, it may be called a star, but it does not yet generate energy like a normal star. This is because this star is still being formed.
Astronomy
Jun 13, 2016
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