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May 13, 2023
tycho crater on the moon

Missed Opportunity

May 10, 2023
nicer, an x-ray telescope, operating from the international space station

Nicer Astronomy

May 8, 2023
simulation depicting the merger of two neutron stars

Defying Gravity

May 1, 2023
the Sun in December 2019, at solar minimum

Livelier Sun

April 28, 2023
Emirates Mars Mission view of Deimos in front of Mars

Family Portrait

April 26, 2023
stars spin around the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory

First Views

April 24, 2023
artist's concept of van allen radiation belts

Danger Zone

April 16, 2023
Quaoar and its moon and ring

Inconvenient Ring

April 13, 2023

Colorful Aftermath

April 10, 2023

Jupiter Bound

April 7, 2023
Bright blue stars in front of a background of colorful filaments of gas and dust

Colorful Debris

April 3, 2023

Black-Hole Hunter

March 31, 2023
Ghostly clouds of hot gas glow bright blue against a background of many distant galaxies

Ghostly Gas

March 18, 2023
a huge cloud of gas and newly forming stars make up the vulpecula OB-1 association

Future Fireworks

March 14, 2023
jwst image of a star that will explode as a supernova

Future Blast

March 3, 2023
hubble space telescope images show aftermath of dart impact into an asteroid

Big Impact

February 27, 2023
venus and jupiter pass close to each other in the evening sky

Close Passage

February 16, 2023
field of galaxies from webb telescope

Pandora's Bounty

February 10, 2023
Artist's concept of dwarf planet Quaoar (center) and its ring, with a small moon at left and the sun at the right

Distant Ring

February 6, 2023
The IceCube neutrino observatory under a night sky at the south pole

Ready to Expand

January 24, 2023
james webb telescope view of a dark stellar nursery

Dark Nursery

January 11, 2023
JWST image of a giant stellar nursery

Busy Nursery

January 5, 2023
M79, a globular star cluster in Lepus

A Burst of Stars

December 29, 2022
Trappist-1 and its seven known planets

Gobs of Planets

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