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View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Peter Lowenstein in Mutare, Zimbabwe, caught the waning moon, Mars and a flock of whistling ducks at dawn on August 9, 2020. Thank you,

This is the Proba-3 spacecraft’s newly unveiled first view of the sun’s corona, or outer atmosphere. This is a filtered visible light view, revealing the corona as a human eye

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | The bright star in the center of this montage of time-exposure photos is Polaris, the North Star. Perhaps you’ve heard it stays still in

View larger. | The Webb space telescope used its NIRCam instrument on May 18, 2024, to capture this image of the massive, cold exoplanet 14 Herculis c. At 26 degrees

This video depicts a simulation of millions of small solar system objects that astronomers said the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will discover in the next 10 years. Video via Jake

View larger. | Artist’s concept of a gigantic hot exoplanet – designated WASP-121b – when it was younger and still orbiting far from its star. The gap is where the

An international team of astronomers said on June 4, 2025, that they’ve found a giant planet around a tiny star. The discovery challenges theories of planet formation. Image via University

Astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic explosion they’re calling extreme nuclear transients. They occur when a supermassive black hole eats a star some 10 times the sun’s mass.

The more atmosphere you are peering through, the more stars (or planets) appear to twinkle. Read below why stars twinkle, but planets do not. Chart by AstroBob. Used with permission.

Watch this video from NASA about the future galactic collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda. New research said there’s now only a 50/50 chance that these 2 giant spiral