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The Earth Beyond the Moon from Hakuto-R

On April 20, the Japanese Hakuto-R spacecraft took a remarkable image of the Earth from orbit around the Moon, showing a …

April 27, 2023
Sample Tube Under Perseverance

What the Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter have been doing on Mars.

April 4, 2023
The Andromeda Galaxy

Check out an Older Hubble Telescope Image that will Leave You Star-struck We astronomers often talk about the vastness of things …

March 17, 2023
Galaxies dominate this view from the James Webb Space Telescope

(And A New Science Fiction Story) Here is a new image that the James Webb Space Telescope people designated their “Image …

February 5, 2023
New Comet ZTF

There is a faint new comet in the sky, on an orbit that took it some 50,000 years to come in …

January 27, 2023

News of a PBS TV program on how first contact with an alien civilization might happen & a link to my latest science-fiction story on the same topic.

January 7, 2023

It's the Winter Solstice, when we experience the shortest day and longest night.

December 20, 2022

Astronomers working with the James Webb Space Telescope have just identified the most distant galaxy ever observed by human eyes. This …

December 3, 2022
A star struggles to be born

One of strongest hopes astronomers have for the James Webb Space Telescope is that it will reveal to us many of …

November 20, 2022

There will be a total eclipse of the Moon visible from all of North America on the morning of Nov. 8th.

October 24, 2022
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