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Cats are a cosmic mystery, creatures of stardust and moonlight. We may not be able to solve their endless ineffability, but ...
Astrophotographer Greg Meyer has captured a colorful view of the famous Trifid and Lagoon nebulas illuminated from within by radiation cast out by generations of energetic young stars.
NASA’s James Webb Telescope captures the "Cosmic Owl," a rare galactic formation resembling an owl’s face. See stunning images.
New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a ...
Impact Craters: Small meteoroids collide with Mars, revealing lighter sediment underneath and sculpting crater patterns that coincidentally resemble hearts. Erosion & Volcanism: Mesas and depressions, ...
Brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers most stars, so they cool and fade over time. But if they ...
Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In the grand scheme of things, it is, but all those stars, galaxies, planets, ...
Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...