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RCW 49 is one of the most productive regions of star formation to have been found in the Milky Way. It spans a distance of about 350 light-years, and it is thought that over 2200 stars reside within it.
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Camelopardalis is a dim constellation of the far northern sky, representing a giraffe. The giraffe's long neck can be visualized as stretching around the north celestial pole toward Ursa Minor and Draco.
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The Horsehead Nebula is lit by a quintuple star system that bathes the clouds in UV light. Sigma Ordonis A and B are an orbiting pair of blue stars; C,D, and E will eventually spin off as solo stars
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NASA has created a visualization of what it would be like to fall into a black hole. It is worth those 40 seconds of your life.
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Albireo is regarded as one of the finest multiple star systems in the night sky. It consists of a golden-colored giant star and a cooler blue-dwarf star. Albireo is easily separated through a small telescope.
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Little is known about dark energy, except that it's repulsive. This strange force causes matter to scatter rather than attract. Dark energy makes up 68% of the universe's mass-energy density.
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Enaiposha is 3 times bigger and 8 times as massive as Earth. The planet's density means a chunk of it must be lighter than rock but heavier than gas. It is likely that Enaiposha is a water world.
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3C 273 is the brightest quasar in the sky and the second to be discovered. In 1963, Cyril Hazard used an occultation by the moon to establish its position.
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
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The Carina Nebula boasts three rare Wolf-Rayets (WR), the hottest stars in the universe. They illuminate and ionize a dark nebula called a Bok globule.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
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Unusually, Gamma Velorum, a blue star, has been recently renamed. Its new name Regor, "Roger" backwards, honors Roger Chaffee, an astronaut who died in the Apollo 1 fire.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
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The Cat's Eye nebula is one of the most complex of all planetary nebulae, possibly due to the interaction of a close binary system at its center.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
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Puppis is a rich southern constellation straddlng the Milky Way that was originally part of the ancient Greek constellation of Argo Navis until it was divided into three parts in the 18th century
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
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The distinctive shape of the stunning Hourglass Nebula has fired much debate over its formation among astronomers.
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
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I am too tired to go get the astronomy book off the shelf so everybody gets to make up their own fun space fact this week
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
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Ensisheim is the oldest meteorite fall that can be positively dated. It was carefully preserved by being hung from the roof of the parish church in Ensisheim, Alsace.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
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9,000 years ago a Milky Way star exploded in a supernova, leaving behind the Veil Nebula. This nebula is physically huge, containing one filament, NGC 6960, known as the Witch's Broom Nebula, and another, NGC 6995, known as The Bat Nebula.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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LDN 43 is a nebula which bears an astonishing resemblance to a vast cosmic bat flying amongst the stars on a dark Halloween night. In the constellation Ophiuchus, this molecular cloud is dense enough to block light from background stars.
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
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Van Maanen 2 is the closest known solitary white dwarf to the Solar System. It is a dense, compact stellar remnant no longer generating energy and has equivalent to about 68% of the Sun's mass but only 1% of its radius.
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
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The Cartwheel Galaxy was once a normal spiral galaxy but is now recovering from a head-on collision with a smaller runaway galaxy many millions of years earlier in its history.
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Situated in the globular cluster M4, the pulsar PSR B1620-26 rotates more than 90 times per second and has a mass of about 1.3 solar masses.
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In 1572, Tycho Brahe observed a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia and recorded its brightness changes in exceptional detail. This brilliant new object helped astronomers reject the idea that the heavens were immutable.
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Prometheus is a small, potato-shaped moon orbiting just inside Saturn's multi-stranded F ring. They are connected by a fine thread of material, and it is possible that Prometheus is pulling particles out of the F ring.
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The meteorite Glatton was discovered by English civil servant Arthur Pettifor on May 5, 1991. While out planting onions, he heard a loud whining noise and noticed a conifer waving around. Underneath the tree was a small lukewarm stone.
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The Jewel Box, also known as the Kappa Crusis cluster, is an open cluster of about 100 stars and is about 29 light-years across. At less than 20 million years old, it is one of the youngest open clusters known.
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Abell 2218 is a spectacular example of a highly evolved and extremely dense galaxy cluster. It contains more than 250 mostly elliptical galaxies in a volume of space roughly 1 million light-years across.
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Camelopardalis is a dim constellation of the far northern sky, representing a giraffe, and was introduced in the early 17th century on a celestial globe created by the Dutch astronomer Petrus Plancius
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Ovda Regio is one of a handful of highland regions on Venus that displays a type of complex ridge terrain known as tessera
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The constellation Cetus is depicted on old star charts as an unlikely-looking, almost comical, hybrid sea monster.
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The Antennae Galaxies appear as a central bright double knot of material, with two long streamers of of stars stretching in opposite directions, resembling an insect's antennae
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For Those Times You Find Yourself Aimlessly Drifting Through the Aftermath of a Supernova
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Cause and Effect
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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Embarking on a new mission in the two person shuttlecraft
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
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For Those Times When A Virus Changes All Your Mates Into Large Porcupines, Then You Remember That You Are A Member Of A Race Of Large Porcupines And Perhaps You Had Too Much Tree Sap Last Night
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
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For Those Times You Wonder Whether It Snows On Jupiter
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
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The Challenge of Coordinating an Intergalactic Zoom Call Where Every Participant Has a Different Day Length
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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For Those Times You Question Whether Your Surroundings Are From A Different Universe
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
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Consigned to the Furthest Reaches of the Universe
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
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For Those Times When You Walk Through The Hydroponics Area And Encounter A Monolith
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For Those Times When You Simply Run Out Of Class M Planets
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
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For Those Time You Listen To A Certain Number of Loud Music Tracks On Deck 15, Then Listen To A Different Number Of Quiet Music Tracks On Deck 10
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For Those Times When The Replicator Gains Sentience And Incorporates Random Pharmaceuticals Into Your Hot Chocolate
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Music For Malfunctioning Guidance Systems
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For Those Times When Your Mission Is To Explore The New Shelf
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Solstice Edition: For Those Times You Are Serenely Floating Through Space and Get Picked Up By A Prevaling Current of Space Manatee Farts
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A Study On What It Might Sound Like Inside A Vorlon Encounter Suit
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For Those Times You Need To Cross An Asteroid Belt To Get To The Nebula On The Other Side
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Quantum Tunneling Through a Wall
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For Those Times When You Go All The Places At The Same Time
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Creating Feedback Loops in the Holodeck
Tuesday, February 15, 2022
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Your Tuesday Entertainment: Staring at the Warp Core, Entering The Aurora Oval, Then Watching the Light Show
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
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Leaving Space Dock After Dilithium Crystal Recharge
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Setting the Autopilot on Shuffle Play
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
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For Those Times You Find You've Been Jettisoned Into A Nebula
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
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A Day In The Life Of Stellar Cartography
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
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Space Travel Is Expensive, Please Help Us Pay For It
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
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For Those Times You Leave The Party And Go Sit On The Spherical Telescope
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
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When the retro rockets misfire and you careen through the atmosphere
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
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Have You Ever Wondered What It Would Sound Like If You Fell Into a Black Hole
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Achieving maximum entropy
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Things Happen Randomly in Space, But Do They Ever Happen For No Reason
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In Space, There Are Long Distances Between Stars
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Sometimes the transporter malfunctions and doesn't reassemble things properly
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Random points on the space-time continuum
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In space, no one can see you gaze at your shoes
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Some things in space are made of stone, hence some stoner rock
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There are pulsars in space
Monday, December 14, 2020
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Space is Ambient. Sometimes.
Monday, November 16, 2020
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