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People, Places, and Events

Like Chocolate in Your Peanut Butter

When two great things come together. . .

Antarctica

People, Places, and Events

Undiscovered Country

A detailed overview of Antarctica was released yesterday.

Equipment: Guides & Recommendations

For the Garden

Careful attention goes into bringing back a classic telescope. Watch how it's done.

Space Missions

Good Morning Earth

The Kaguya spacecraft provides a nice way to start the day with a look back home.

Stellar Science

New Route to a Supernova

A distant supernova erupted with signs that it marked the death of not one star, but two.

Galaxies

The Record Stellar-Mass Black Hole

In a nearby galaxy, astronomers find the biggest-ever small black hole.

Space Missions

Seeing More Red

A new series about going to Mars premieres this week. But that's just the beginning of your multimedia adventure.

Observing

Sox and Comet

For heaven's sake, get out and look at Comet Holmes.

Equipment: Guides & Recommendations

A Fresh Start

This new computer is ready for the latest astro software.

People, Places, and Events

Students To Go Pulsar Hunting

High-school students in West Virginia will sift through data from one of the world's largest radio telescopes to look for pulsars. Astronomers expect that they will find dozens.

Milky Way

There Might Be Supergiants

A new view from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the goings on in a cluster full of massive stars.

Sat Tracking

Space Missions

Follow that Station!

Our renewed online tool will let you follow humans orbiting Earth.

Star-tail galaxy

Galaxies

New Stars in a Galaxy's Wake

More than 200 million light-years away, a galaxy is shedding gas as it moves. Surprisingly, stars have popped up in the material left behind.

Full Moon

Observing

Moon Madness

For love or money, the Moon awaits you.

Astronomy and Society

Amateur Astronomy on TV

Don't miss Timothy Ferris's ode to amateur astronomy, which airs on PBS stations throughout the US on Wednesday night.

Solar System

Close-up on Iapetus

NASA's Cassini spacecraft zoomed in to take detailed pictures and other measurements of one of Saturn's weirdest moons.

Celestial News & Events

Listen to Our September Podcast

This month's podcast explores how there still plenty of summer's stars to view even as we transition to autumn.

Cosmology

Whole Lot of Nothing

A billion light-year-wide "hole" in space is a very cold and empty place.

Professional Telescopes

Rings of Uranus on Edge

For the first time since the rings of Uranus were discovered, astronomers are studying their edge-on view.

Solar System

Icy Shower Poses No Threat for Cassini

Scientists are confident that the towering ice geysers on Saturn's moon Enceladus shouldn't harm the Cassini spacecraft during a close flyby next March.

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