When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?
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Bringing the Sun to light
The closest star to Earth is also the best studied, but only recently have we truly begun to uncover its secrets.
The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...
Residing only roughly 700 light-years from Earth in the constellation ... dynamic nebula. As the closest symbiotic star to Earth, R Aquarii was studied by none other than Edwin Hubble in an ...
From the colourful Lagoon Nebula, to the mesmerizing Butterfly nebula, check out these 7 amazing images of nebulae captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
Astronomers have discovered a rocky Earth-like planet around a white dwarf star, hinting at our planet's future about eight billion years from now.
Though the nearly full moon will likely outshine some of these speedy meteors, you may still be able to catch a glimpse of ...
November's full moon, known as the Beaver Moon, will peak tomorrow and is the fourth and final time stargazers will be able ...
Planet-forming disks are rapidly disintegrated when blasted with high-energy radiation from massive young stars.
AND YOU DEFINITELY SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS, BECAUSE THIS COMET WILL NOT BE VISIBLE FROM EARTH FOR ANOTHER 80,000 YEARS ... closest point to the sun in its orbital path around the parent star ...
These are just a taste of the discoveries made by the $10 billion Webb telescope since it began science observations in 2022.