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Spacetime Diagram

The spacetime diagram (“a position vs time graph”) is a valuable tool for modeling and interpreting situations in relativity. As I like ...

Free Astronomy Books - Primarily for education. Feel free to add your own links to free books. Let me know if there are broken links or...

Explanation: Can you find which day is the winter solstice? Each panel shows one day. With 360 movie panels, the sky over (almost) an en...

The Dark Energy Survey aims to answer that question, and UCL, Cambridge and other UK astrophysicists are heavily involved in the collab...

Image Credit: NASA , Johns Hopkins U. APL , SwRI What do the moons of Pluto look like? Before a decade ago, only the largest moon C...

The constellation of Orion holds much more than three stars in a row. A deep exposure shows everything from dark nebula to star clusters, ...

October 31, 1938 was the day after Martians encountered planet Earth, and everything was calm. Reports of the invasion were revealed to...

Find out about a new super continent in the making, called Pangaea Ultima (also called Pangaea Proxima, Neopangaea, and Pangaea II). A...

The Philae lander of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these fir...

Yesterday, the first soft landing on a comet took place some 500 million kilometers from planet Earth as the Rosetta mission lander Ph...

This colorful skyscape features the dusty Sharpless catalog emission region Sh2-155, the Cave Nebula. In the composite image, data take...

To some, it may look like a cat’s eye. The alluring Cat’s Eye nebula, however, lies three thousand light-years from Earth across inter...

Did you see the super moon this weekend (July 12)? Looks like European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, got some great shots from...