Eta Carinae, the star at the point of exploding.
Eta Carinae is an unstable blue hypergiant star situated 7500 light-years from Earth, visible in the constellation of Carena. The…
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PHOTOGRAPHING EXTRASOLAR PLANETS
Amongst all the existing techniques for discovering exoplanets, the most immediate and understandable is to photograph them directly. In theory…
M27: THE FIRST PLANETARY NEBULA DISCOVERED
The definition of “planetary nebula” may lead us in error: these objects have nothing to do with the planets of…
INCOMING COMET VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE
A comet that has not been seen since the Neanderthals walked the Earth is already on its return journey and…
NASA Just Discovered Pair of Super-Earths With 1,000-Mile-Deep Oceans
The polar ice caps have fully melted and the water level has risen to more than 5 miles, swallowing practically…
This Breathtaking Image Is a Real Photo of Two Stars Destroying Each Other
This picture shows the binary system R Aquarii, a red giant throwing off its outer envelope, which is being greedily…
The infernal IO moon picked up by the Juno probe!
Recently, the first images obtained by the Juno probe were released last July during the close-up of Io, one of…
Twinkle, twinkle many stars…
This sparkling new #StarrySights Hubble image features NGC 2660, an open star cluster located in the constellation Vela. Unlike in…
James Webb Space Telescope Captures Its First Image Of Saturn’s Largest Moon Titan
Titan’s atmosfere is incredibly interesting, not only due to its methane clouds and storms, but also because of what it…
An exoplanet six times the size of Jupiter is crashing into its star
For the first time, astronomers have observed a planet orbiting ever closer to its star. This means that, one day,…