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This category presents the reader with astronomical events that can be seen each week, and month.
A hypothesis debated by researchers suggests advanced civilizations may be observing Earth while avoiding contact, reframing the long-running Fermi paradox as a problem of choice rather than distance. For more…
The Laniakea supercluster is one of the most mind-bending structures ever charted in the observable universe. Stretching over 500 million light-years and containing more than 100,000 galaxies—including our own Milky…
The boundary between Earth and space is usually taught as a clean line: cross it, and you are “in space.” New analyses of ultraviolet observations challenge that tidy picture by…
The first true 3D map of the Milky Way is changing everything we thought we knew about our galaxy. What once looked like a flat spiral now appears warped, rippled,…
A new visualization turns years of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mapping into a continuous, measured view of lunar terrain. NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio has produced a 4K video tour of the…