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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

ALMA detected water vapor in HL Tauri's disk. Here it’s shown in blue. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Facchini et al

Astronomers observe oceans of water vapor in a region where planets likely form

JWST's false-color image of the JADES-GS-z7-01-QU galaxy

Galaxies, Stars

Astronomers find the corpse of a galaxy early in the universe

The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146) is a reflection and emission nebula that lies 4,000 light-years away in Cygnus. The author captured this image with HαRGB filters and exposures of six, three, three, and three hours, respectively.

Telescopes and Equipment

Review: The amazing Stellarvue 180mm refractor

Alien Life, Solar System

NASA’s Juno spacecraft probes Europa’s oxygen levels

A simulation shows a plume of debris shooting off of Dimorphos.

Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Solar System

NASA’s DART mission may have changed the shape of asteroid Dimorphos, new study reveals

Is Earth the only Goldilocks planet?

New moons of Uranus and Neptune discovered

NGC 4565, the Needle Galaxy, was imaged with a ZWO ASI294MC Pro on a Takahashi FSQ-106N with 18 hours and 50 minutes of exposure.

Deep-Sky Objects, Observing Basics

Here are a few targets Messier missed that are worth a visit

During the dry season at Botswana’s Makgadikgadi salt pan, temperature inversions lead to all manner of mirages.

Observing, The Sun

Secret Sky: Tropical Novaya Zemlya effects

A photograph of the sun showing it blazing briilliantly.

How will the Sun die?