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Observing, Upcoming Events

Must-see: Catch a double meteor shower tonight

Thor’s Helmet, NGC 2359

Astrophotography, Science

What are the most beautiful images in astronomy?

JWST image of Epsilon Indi Ab

JWST directly images a surprise super-Jupiter planet

Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

How China’s Chang’e 6 mission snagged the first samples of the Moon’s farside

Robotic Spaceflight, Space Exploration

NASA cancels fully built Moon rover, stunning scientists

Deep-Sky Objects

Tools for finding dark skies

Late summer is a great time to take a visual trip along our Milky Way. Credit: Stuart Atkinson.

Take a summer road trip along the Milky Way

Folklore meets science in this search for the ‘sounds’ of the northern lights

An image of a pile of rocks on Mars. The soil around the rocks is a terra cotta color and the rocks in the middle of the image feature yellow crystals on the edges.

Robotic Spaceflight, Solar System, Space Exploration

A lucky break revealed a surprise inside a martian rock

Eileen Collins, mission commander, looks over a checklist on the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1999. Credit: NASA.

Human Spaceflight, Science, Space Exploration

How Eileen Collins burst through the glass ceiling aboard the space shuttle

The gegenschein rests at the tip of the dimmer pyramidal-shaped false zodiacal light.

The mysteries behind the gegenschein

This artist’s impression shows a Jupiter-like exoplanet that is on its way to becoming a hot Jupiter — a large, Jupiter-like exoplanet that orbits very close to its star. Credit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da SilvaCredit: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva.

Exoplanets, Science

Astronomers catch a planet changing into a hot Jupiter