On two separate nights in May, a strange blue laser sliced through the skies over the Oxfordshire, England countryside, leaving skywatchers baffled. Astrophotographer and astronomy communicator Mary McIntyre captured the
On two separate nights in May, a strange blue laser sliced through the skies over the Oxfordshire, England countryside, leaving skywatchers baffled. Astrophotographer and astronomy communicator Mary McIntyre captured the
Look up — or rather, down — tonight to spot the lowest full moon in nearly two decades. This month’s full moon will ride low on the southern horizon thanks
ANCHORAGE, AK — There was a pindrop silence in the room on Tuesday (June 10), as Christoph Keller, director of the National Solar Observatory, spoke on stage here at the
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Schematic illustration of chemical interaction between an hydrogen-dominated atmosphere and a magma ocean in sub-Neptune with an oxidized FeO-containing magma ocean (left panel) and a reduced FeO-free magma ocean. Note
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Transit zones for all solar system planets are plotted in heliocentric ecliptic coordinates (left) and in celestial coordinates (right). Each planet’s transit zone is shown as a colored sinusoidal band.
Bode’s Galaxy (M81) can be seen shining in the center of this cosmic vista captured by amateur astronomer Greg Meyer, with the irregularly-shaped Cigar Galaxy (M82) close to its left,






