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Every culture has a name for the Pleiades. Source: Stargazing: We call The Pleiades 7 sisters, but they’re goats in Mexico | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Read More Stargazing: We call The Pleiades 7 sisters, but they’re goats in Mexico | Pittsburgh Post-GazetteIn the vein of “go big or go home,” the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has launched a stunning new website to showcase information about — and match the scale of — its Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the highly anticipated observatory scheduled to have first light in 2025. The new website is well-designed and contains a […]
Read More Here’s the Extremely New Website for the Extremely Large Telescope – Universe TodayAstronomers have released an incredible new map of the Universe. This two-dimensional image is the culmination of six years worth of work for the Dark Ener Source: Feast Your Eyes On The Largest Map Of The Universe Yet | IFLScience
Read More Feast Your Eyes On The Largest Map Of The Universe Yet | IFLScienceGet ready for a spooky red glow in the January skies. But what is it? And how can you catch it? Source: Super blood wolf moon: when to watch 2019 lunar eclipse in the UK tonight and why it happens | inews
Read More Super blood wolf moon: when to watch 2019 lunar eclipse in the UK tonight and why it happens | inewsTESS has found its first circumbinary planet: a planet that orbits two stars. Astronomers think that there are many more of them out there. Source: TESS Finds a Planet That Orbits Two Stars – Universe Today
Read More TESS Finds a Planet That Orbits Two Stars – Universe TodayJust when you thought your little place on our planet was safe and secure, NASA’s SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) airborne observatory just captured the most detailed Source: NASA just captured a new ultra-detailed image of the Milky Way galaxy
Read More NASA just captured a new ultra-detailed image of the Milky Way galaxySource: NASA planet hunter finds its first earth-size habitable-zone world
Read More NASA planet hunter finds its first earth-size habitable-zone worldA new infrared SOFIA image of the Milky Way’s core is giving astronomers an unprecedented view of the region, and helping answer some important questions. Source: This is the Core of the Milky Way, Seen in Infrared, Revealing Features Normally Hidden by Gas and Dust – Universe Today
Read More This is the Core of the Milky Way, Seen in Infrared, Revealing Features Normally Hidden by Gas and Dust – Universe TodayKeep in mind that Earth’s tilted axis creates the seasons, not its distance from the sun. Source: Happy Perihelion Day! Earth Is Closest to the Sun Today | Space
Read More Happy Perihelion Day! Earth Is Closest to the Sun Today | SpaceIn a Dec. 10 press event at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California, three scientists presented new images of the ionosphere, the dynamic region where Earth’s atmosphere meets space. Source: Scientists Present New Ionosphere Images and Science at AGU 2019 | NASA
Read More Scientists Present New Ionosphere Images and Science at AGU 2019 | NASA
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