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    This celestial “Christmas Tree” is our galaxy wishing you happy holidays

    Dec 21, 2023 Dunja Đuđić

    Astronomers have unveiled a stunning new image of NGC 2264, a cluster of young stars nicknamed the “Christmas Tree Cluster.” They even made it twinkle, so it looks like it has fairy lights all over it. Well isn’t this perfect timing for a photo like this?

    NASA beams cat video 19 million miles through space

    Dec 21, 2023 Alex Baker

    NASA put the latest and greatest technology to its best use this week and successfully beamed a cat video through deep space. The video of…

    Ring in the holidays with this new close-up image of Uranus

    Dec 21, 2023 Alex Baker

    The James Webb telescope has captured a magnificent new view of Uranus, which shows a detailed view of its rings in full glory. The image…

    A star is born: James Webb Telescope captures supernova remnant in unprecedented detail

    Dec 11, 2023 Dunja Đuđić

    The James Webb Space Telescope has captured yet another stunning, detailed space image. This time, it offers a detailed view of the Cas A supernova remnant, a massive explosion that occurred 340 years ago. This image reveals intricate features of the expanding shell of material slamming into the gas shed by the star before it exploded.

    From photo to symphony: NASA’s Milky Way image becomes a musical masterpiece

    Nov 21, 2023 Dunja Đuđić

    The Universe of Sound Data Sonification is NASA’s project that takes data and images and translates them into sounds. After releasing computer-made “space songs,” NASA has gone a step further. They teamed up with a composer and created a real symphony based on the “sounds” of the Milky Way. How cool is that?

    Watch: Powerful solar eruption warps the sun’s magnetic field

    Nov 20, 2023 Dunja Đuđić

    This weekend, there was a solar eruption so powerful that it warped the Sun’s own magnetic field. ESA captured the event, also known as coronal…

    This is the first-ever photo of Mars atmosphere glowing green

    Nov 17, 2023 Dunja Đuđić

    We all know Mars as the “Red Planet.” But the latest photo from ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter show that its atmosphere glows – green. The orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere, which is exciting on its own. But there’s more – this is the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other than Earth.

    New Hubble UV image shows Jupiter as we’ve never seen before

    Nov 6, 2023 Dunja Đuđić

    The NASA Hubble Space Telescope has treated us with another gorgeous image. This time, it has shown us Jupiter in a totally different light. It’s a “different light,” both figuratively and literally: Jupiter doesn’t only look different than what we’re used to, but the shot was also taken using ultraviolet light.

    NASA shares spectacular new photos of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io

    Oct 19, 2023 Dunja Đuđić

    During Juno’s flyby on October 15, 2023, it took some photos of Jupiter’s fifth moon, Io. The latest images of the volcanic beauty are truly…

    NASA captures annular solar eclipse’s shadow from a million miles away

    Oct 18, 2023 Dunja Đuđić

    On October 14, 2023, millions of Americans were treated to a spectacular annular solar eclipse. It didn’t only darken the sun, but it also cast a vast shadow on Earth. And while you were looking at the solar eclipse, NASA took a photo of you and this huge shadow from a million miles away.