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People Seeing the Moon Up Close for the First Time Is a Dose of Good Vibes
Filmmaker and space lover Wylie Overstreet took his telescope onto the streets of Los Angeles to show strangers the moon, then captured their reactions on film.
A US Satellite Took These Beautiful Black-and-White Photographs of Mars
Space lovers rejoice with ‘This Is Mars’ photo book.
Here’s Our First View of TRAPPIST-1, the Alien Solar System With Earth-Sized Planets
Super pixellated, but still amazing.
Start Rolling Your Blunts: Spherical Planetarium Videos Are Here
Pair these videos with some spacedub made from ripples in the curvature of spacetime, and send your mind to the stars.
Behold, the Most Detailed Map of Neutral Hydrogen in the Milky Way
Southern and Northern hemispheres come together for gaseous gala.
Coming Soon: A New Telescope Array Hunting for Extragalactic Gamma Rays
19 new telescopes, to be joined later by 99 more in Chile, will hunt for Cherenkov radiation.
Jupiter’s Shadow Freezes Io’s Atmosphere Solid Every Day
Jupiter, you make a better door than a window.
Watch this Brief History of the Search for an Earthlike Exoplanet
A trip inside the “holy grail” of exoplanet research.
The Doomed Hitomi Telescope Had a Spectacular View of the Universe As It Died
It viewed a monster tangle of galaxies known as Perseus.
Watch Two Years of Asteroid Observations in 20 Seconds
The quest to root out all the stray space rocks near Earth is simultaneously comforting and unnerving.
Experience the Milky Way in High Resolution Over Multiple Wavelengths
The European Southern Observatory celebrates the completion of the APEX Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL).
Proof the Milky Way Is the Greatest Light Show Ever
The APEX Telescope’s giant new image shows the Milky Way as you've never seen it before.