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Astrophotography

Color space

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System, The Moon

Jupiter shines brilliantly

Stars

What’s in a name?

Exotic Objects, Stars

If a supernova’s original star is massive enough to form a black hole, why is there any explosion? Why doesn’t the entire mass of the original star simply fall onto the newly formed black hole and instantly vanish?

Stars

Web Extra: What makes stars tick?

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System

Web Extra: A historic encounter with Pluto

Deep-Sky Objects, Stars

Web Extra: 11 top winter binocular gems

Exoplanets, Planets, Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System

How does NASA navigate a Mars rover’s direction and determine its location with the planet having no global magnetic field?

Astrophotography

Using masks, part 3

Exotic Objects, Stars

I’ve read that the gas ejected during supernova explosions glows at millions of degrees; I also have read that gas is tenuous. How would a million-degree gas feel physically? Would I vaporize while flying through such a cloud?

Exoplanets, Planets, Solar System, The Moon

Jupiter’s marvelous moons

Exoplanets, Exotic Objects, Planets, Solar System, Stars, The Sun

Web Extra: 2014’s other big space stories