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Space.com

An explosive cannibal white dwarf has been discovered in an incredibly close orbit around its stellar victim, proving a 30-year-old theory about how such binary star systems evolve. Discovered in images …

Space.com

Because Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, light from our star often makes the planet tough to spot. This makes the weeks around the periods of greatest elongation when it is furthest from the sun the best time to spot the tiny planet.

Astronomy Magazine

Bright Mercury reaches greatest western elongation from the Sun this week, turning it into a conspicuous sight. Michael Karrer (Flickr) (CC BY-NC 2.0), cropping by Astronomy.com. Friday, October 7. Asteroid 4 Vesta is stationary at 2 A.M. EDT.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

This view of Jovian moon Europa was created by processing an image JunoCam captured during Juno’s close flyby on Sept. 29. Credit: Image data: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS.

Big Think

All throughout the Universe, the bound structures that we see, from planets to stars to stellar systems to entire galaxies all spin, rotate, and have large amounts of net angular momentum. But …

Science News

“Follow the water” has long been the mantra of scientists searching for life beyond Earth. After all, the only known cradle of life in the cosmos is the watery planet we call home. But now there’s more evidence suggesting that a potential discovery of …

Laboratory Equipment

Key Points: Scientists have shown that in 1 in every 4,000 births, some of the genetic code from mitochondria inserts itself into DNA. Mitochondrial DNA appears more often in cancer DNA, suggesting that it acts as a sticking plaster to try and repair …

SkyandTelescope.com

This evening, bright white Jupiter shines left of the bright white Moon. Look much farther upper right of the Moon, by about four fists at arm’s length, for Saturn. The Moon and Saturn form an isosceles triangle with Fomalhaut, which sparkles far below …

al.com

This NASA animation depicts the Earth flyby of small asteroid in 2012. A Colombian scientist has found new evidence in Alabama of the effect of a much larger asteroid strike on the planet.

The Hindu

Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that thrived during the age of dinosaurs, achieved great size – some with wingspans like a fighter jet – and displayed striking anatomy including exotic head crests and a hugely elongated finger to support their wings.