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The most powerful events in the known universe – gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) – are short-lived outbursts of the highest-energy light.…
A detailed guide to the night sky written by a NASA expert featuring full Moon lore, asteroid flybys, stars, galaxies,…
A blazing red supergiant shining brilliantly in the night sky, Betelgeuse is a star that has captured attention for centuries.
Can a star be squeezed like a tube of toothpaste, flattened like a pancake, or stretched out like a piece…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is preparing to deliver fantastic new images of faraway worlds and galaxies, but it’ll also…
As the surface of the Bubble Nebula’s shell expands outward, different gasses emit different colors: oxygen irradiated enough emits blue…
This mosaic image of the Crab Nebula, taken by Hubble, was assembled from 24 individual Wide Field and Planetary Camera…
This image of Mars was constructed from three different black-and-white images recording red light, green light and blue light reflected…
A colored-glass window allows only its particular color of light to pass through – it filters out the other colors…
