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An artist's conception of a centaur, a half-asteroid, half-comet rock.

Exotic Objects, Science

The oddities known as Centaurs may sprout their tails after jumping to new orbits

March 21, 2024, 30 minutes before sunrise, looking east

The Sky This Week from March 15 to 22: A conjunction of Venus and Saturn

A screenshot of NASA's livestream of the eclipse before the eclipse.

2024 Solar Eclipse, Observing, Upcoming Events

How to watch the solar eclipse online

An image from the James Webb Space Telescope showing wispy pink-purple filaments and a scattering of stars.

What are the smallest brown dwarfs? The JWST has a new answer

This spectacular photographic sequence around totality shows some of the features you'll see if your sky is clear and you're in the path of totality April 8, 2024. Credit: Ben Cooper.

2024 Solar Eclipse, Solar System

The slightly weird mathematical coincidence behind an eclipse

The astronauts of Apollo 12 — Alan Bean, Pete Conrad, and Dick Gordon — experienced a solar eclipse while returning home from the Moon. Their spacecraft flew through Earth’s shadow, allowing them to capture this image on their 16mm motion picture camera. Credit: NASA/JSC.

2024 Solar Eclipse, Observing, The Moon, The Sun, Upcoming Events

What would a solar eclipse look like from the Moon?

An artists' conception of a spacewalk by the Polaris Dawn crew.

Human Spaceflight, Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

The upgrades to spacesuits that need to be made sooner rather than later

A clip from NOIRLab's video shows the remnants of a supernova explosion.

Exotic Objects, Science

NOIRLab releases jaw-dropping images, video of remnants from massive star explosion

The Orion nebula as seen by the JWST, appears like a pillowy, colorful, massive cloud of gas and dust.

Exoplanets, Stars

JWST spots oceans’ worth of water evaporating from a star’s planet-forming disk

The Orion nebula as seen by the JWST, appears like a pillowy, colorful, massive cloud of gas and dust.

JWST data show intense bursts of radiation are vaporizing parts of a young star’s disk in the Orion Nebula

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is depicted in this artist’s concept traveling through interstellar space, or the space between stars, which it entered in 2012. Traveling on a different trajectory, its twin, Voyager 2, entered interstellar space in 2018. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Space Exploration

Voyager 1 is sending binary gibberish to Earth from 15.1 billion miles away

Observing, Telescopes and Equipment

Interview: Celestron CEO Corey Lee on the revolutionary Origin Intelligent Home Observatory