How to Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower Peak, if the Moon Isn’t in the Way
Thursday night into Friday morning will be one of the special dates scattered throughout each year when skywatchers can catch…
Europa (Moon of Jupiter)
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NASA Shows Webb’s View of Something Closer to Home: Jupiter
The new James Webb Space Telescope can capture photographs not only of galaxies across the universe, but also of objects…
Asteroids
Hayabusa2
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
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Asteroid Samples May ‘Rewrite the Chemistry of the Solar System’
The results were “very important,” said Victoria Hamilton, a scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who was…
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France
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Shards of the Planet Mercury May Be Hiding on Earth
Mercury does not make sense. It is a bizarre hunk of rock with a composition that is unlike its neighboring…
A Total Lunar Eclipse in Prime-Time: How to Watch
Finally a good reason to stay up on Sunday night: A total lunar eclipse. Lunar watchers throughout the United States…
Astrophysical Journal Letters
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Hubble Telescope Zooms In on the Biggest Comet Ever Spotted
Last year, scientists announced that they had discovered a colossal comet lingering just inside Neptune’s orbit. They estimated its icy…
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Astronomy and Astrophysics (Journal)
Moons
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Space and Astronomy
The First Quadruple Asteroid: Astronomers Spot a Space Rock With 3 Moons
We already knew the asteroid 130 Elektra was special. Astronomers previously discovered it had two moons, making it a rare…
Asteroids
Earth
Gravitation and Gravity
Nature Communications (Journal)
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Astronomers Find a New Asteroid Sharing Earth’s Orbit
Earth also appeared to lack Trojan asteroids until astronomers found one in 2010 at the L4 Lagrange point, 60 degrees…
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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Nature (Journal)
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A New Map of the Sun’s Local Bubble
Just a bit too late for New Year celebrations, astronomers have discovered that the Milky Way galaxy, our home, is,…
Asteroids
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Meteor Showers That Will Peak in Night Skies in 2022
On any given night, far from bright city lights, there’s a chance you’ll see a beautiful streak shoot across the…