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The Planetary Society

Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, one of the leads on the team that made the detection, joins us to discuss the details. We share info on the Juno mission to Jupiter’s next flybys of Io, let you know how to spot the “green comet” visiting our part of the Solar System, …

Space.com

Instead, it ended in a quiet “ultra-stripped” supernova, a rare cosmic event that leaves a super-dense remnant called a neutron star in its wake. “This remarkable …

Space.com

SpaceX will launch 53 of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit early Thursday morning (Feb. 2), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 53 Starlink craft is scheduled to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida …

Space.com

For the second flyby in a row, a key camera studying Jupiter has struggled to snap photos as usual. NASA’s Juno spacecraft launched in 2011 and arrived at Jupiter in 2016; since then, it has made nearly 50 flybys of the largest planet in our solar …

CNN

It’s the first confirmed detection of a star system that will one day create a kilonova – when neutron stars collide and explode, releasing gold and other heavy elements into space. The rare stellar pair is believed to be one of only about 10 like it in …

Space.com

A newly released image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a crowded field of galaxies and stars, with a distant spiral galaxy standing out in stunning detail. The large galaxy that sits at the bottom of the image, LEDA 2046648, is so clear in …

Phys.Org

Physicists are increasingly using ultracold molecules to study quantum states of matter. Many researchers contend that molecules have advantages over other alternatives, such as trapped ions, atoms or photons. These advantages suggest that molecular …

Astronomy Magazine

It was only in the 1920s that astronomers began to theorize that our universe was born billions of years ago in a Big Bang of near-infinite temperature and density. The hot gases that exploded outward from this event condensed into the first galaxies …

Space.com

Join Miguel here as he takes us through his photograph “Comet E3 ZTF Showing the Tail in Perspective and Immersed in a Colorful Starfield.” This image shows a close-up view of comet …

The New York Times

February’s space events start with a somber memorial. The first of the month is the 20th anniversary of the Columbia disaster, when seven astronauts died as their space shuttle broke up during a return flight to Earth after 17 days in space.