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Exotic Objects, Milky Way, Science

The Milky Way’s central black hole could have a hidden jet

This artist’s concept shows a planet gradually spiraling into its host star. Credit: R. Hurt & K. Miller (Caltech/IPAC)

More than a few nearby stars show signs they ate young planets

The lunar nearside

Every Full Moon, you can see the craters made famous in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Thomas Stafford's 1966 NASA portrait. Credit NASA

Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

Remembering Tom Stafford, the Apollo commander who did his part to thaw the Cold War

Exotic Objects, Uncategorized

The rumblings that led to the ‘alien spheres’ probably came from a truck

Sir Brian May, Lord Martin Rees, Professor Mary Kaldor, and Dr. Garik Israelian pictured at the Starmus VII launch event in London.

Science, Upcoming Events

Starmus unveils its program for ‘Starmus VII, The Future of our Home Planet’

An artist's conception of the pair of supermassive black holes.

Exotic Objects, Science

These supermassive black holes, equal to 28 billion Suns, are the heaviest ever measured

Astronomers estimate 50,000 sources of near-infrared light are represented in this image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. A foreground star in our own galaxy, to the right of the image center, displays Webb’s distinctive diffraction spikes. Bright white sources surrounded by a hazy glow are the galaxies of Pandora’s Cluster, a conglomeration of already-massive clusters of galaxies coming together to form a megacluster. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh), Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

Cosmology, Galaxies, Science

Dwarf galaxies turned on the lights near the dawn of time, JWST reveals

Details of the lamassu and palace reliefs of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal (883-859 BC) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A weird, sometimes bloody ritual kept kings ‘safe’ during ancient eclipses

The Tucson Astronomy Festival has hands'-on activities for kids. Credit: Tuscon Amateur Astronomy Association.

Observing, Upcoming Events

Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association to host a free festival March 30

Person looking up at the night sky and Milky Way

Astronomy for beginners, Science, Uncategorized

How should we classify the cosmos?

An Apollo 11 oblique view of the large crater Theophilus located at the northwest edge of the Sea of Nectar on the lunar nearside. Theophilus is about 60 statute miles in diameter. The smooth area is Mare Nectaris. The smaller crater Madler, about 14 statute miles in diameter, is located to the east of Theophilus. Visible in the background are the large crater Fracastorius and the smaller crater Beaumont. This photo was taken July 16, 1969. Credit: NASA.

The ‘highly speculative’ prospect that life once existed on the Moon