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From our tiny blue planet to the edge of the observable universe, this video takes you on a breathtaking journey of scale. We ...
Let's talk about how mysterious the universe is. To know, the visible diameter of the universe is about 93 billion light-years. Doesn't that sound a bit exaggerated?
Welcome to SolarBalls, where entertaining space animations meet educational insights about the solar system and the universe. This channel features comedy and space-themed content that is perfect for ...
So, while browsing an astronomy forum today, I suddenly came across some news that completely baffled me — the third ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.
The comet, which poses no risk to Earth, first burst onto the scene July 1, spotted by NASA’s ATLAS survey telescope in Chile ...
Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's ...
The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...
When I was a kid, there were nine planets. Now we know of thousands! But that includes exoplanets, alien worlds that orbit alien suns. Only eight planets call our solar system home. Or there might ...
There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...
Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike ...