APOD: 2026 September 10 – LDN 1295: The Giraffe Nebula
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Dust Storm Sweeps Over Mali
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New Revelations About the Origin of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
UK astronomers have uncovered new clues about the origin of 3I/Atlas – only the third known object from beyond our Solar System ever spotted in our cosmic neighbourhood.
New Research Says that Early Galaxies Could be Sending us Neutrinos
Those “Little Red Dots” discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, galaxies that existed during the very early Universe, could be sending neutrino particles that are reaching us today.
This ‘impossible’ black hole merger may be explained by a warp in spacetime
A “forbidden” merger between two massive black holes may not have been quite as impossible as previously thought. That’s according to new research that suggests the black holes involved were…
NASA Adds Relativity Space’s Terran R to Launch Services Contract
Credit: NASA A NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract has been awarded by the agency to Relativity Space Inc., and its Terran R launch service in accordance with the contract’s…
International Space Station astronaut gives out of this world tribute to honor Star Trek’s 60th anniversary
Celebrations of Star Trek’s 60th anniversary made it all the way to the final frontier. Among the science and supplies delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) for European Space…
Astronomers Unmask a Supernova Impostor
Astronomers observe faint light signals from stellar objects, study it intently, and try to understand what’s behind these signals. In one case, the signals they detected masqueraded as an imminent…
Astronomers discover two stars that joined together to form a binary system just 60 years ago
Using the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) radio telescope, astronomers have watched as two stars come together to form a massive stellar binary. The observations revealed that these stars didn’t…
NASA’s Chandra Unveils Mysterious X-Ray Objects
X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Alabama/M. Muhibullah et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have discovered a new class of objects behaving unlike any they…