Neptune is still amazing
Years after the flight over Neptune by the Voyager 2 probe, it is still able to reconstruct spectacular images by…
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Venus, a mysterious planet
Venus is covered by a thick blanket of clouds that prevents direct observation of its surface. Most of the planet’s…
NGC 660: Unraveling Mysteries of Polar-Ring Galaxies
Positioned in the constellation Pisces, NGC 660 is an extraordinary polar-ring galaxy, lying an estimated 40 million light-years away from…
The Cat Eye Nebula
The Cat’s Eye Nebula is a planetary nebula 3300 light-years away from Earth, visible in the constellation Draco. The nebula…
How did this lake get such a particular circular shape?
The answer is very simple: the water from this lake has filled the interior of what remains of an ancient…
A snowman floating in space? Or maybe not?
At first glance it is not immediate to understand what we are observing, since the perspective of this image is…
Space Burger
The Burger Galaxy is spiral type (Image: Reproduction/Wilhelm Michael Kasakow, Olaf Guillaume) Have you noticed that this galaxy seems to…
Mars moon may be on its way to destruction
A new study indicates that the ridges on the surface of Phobos, the moon of Mars, indicate that the satellite…
The details of the Great Nebula in Carina
The Carina and Lock nebulae (Image: Reproduction/Ignacio Javier Diaz Bobillo) This mixture of colors and shapes shows us a little…
The James Webb Telescope is almost ready to begin scientific work!
The telescope has in fact completed the seventh and final phase of alignment of its mirrors and the team that…