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Space.com

Earth’s night skies are receiving a surprise visitor this month. Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF will be making its closest approaches to both Earth and the sun in the coming weeks. The comet was first discovered in March 2022 by astronomers at the Zwicky …

The Washington Post

Mark your calendar, sky watchers. This year will be a real treat in terms of astronomical events, with a slew of remarkable sightings set to light up the sky. With opportunities to wish upon shooting stars, and to see a Super Blue Moon and the Ring of …

Space.com

A dazzling new image from the Hubble Space Telescope captures a stunning view of a nearby open cluster of stars that is slowly dissolving into the dwarf galaxy around it. The photo shows part of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy of the Milky …

Forbes

A research team using new methods to analyze data from NASA’s Curiosity, a rover operating on Mars since 2012, was able to independently verify that fracture halos contained opal, on Earth a gemstone formed by the alteration of silicon-dioxide by water …

Space.com

A defunct NASA satellite is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere on Sunday evening (Jan. 8). The U.S. military predicts that the 5,400-pound (2,450 kilograms) Earth Radiation Budget Satellite (ERBS) will crash back to its home planet Sunday around …

Orlando Sentinel

The Orion space capsule from Artemis I has come full circle, having launched from Kennedy Space Center, traveled 1.4 million miles in space and around the moon, splashed back down to Earth in the Pacific Ocean, and now journeyed 2,500 miles over land …

Newsweek

C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)— an astronomical survey conducted by the Palomar Observatory in California—on March 2, 2022, and has been making waves due to predictions that it could become the first naked eye comet …

Phys.Org

A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said. The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, …

WDRB

In giant clusters of hundreds or thousands of galaxies, innumerable stars wander among the galaxies like lost souls, emitting a ghostly haze of light. These stars are not gravitationally tied to any one galaxy in a cluster.

WESH Orlando

Eric Perlman of Florida Tech has dedicated his career to studying the evolution of galaxies and the universe. He’s been closely tracking the data and images coming from the James Webb Space Telescope since it launched in late 2021, like the stunning …