Astronomy

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Arrokoth's uniform color and composition suggests the planetoid formed from a small, homogeneous cloud of gas and dust in the primordial Solar Nebula, rather...

Seismic waves traversing the core of Mars have provided new insights into its features. © NASA/JPL; Nicholas Schmerr ...

Variable sun: images of the European space telescope SOHO in the extreme ultraviolet range over two activity cycles. © ESA, NASA ...

Asteroid (3200) Phaeton near the sun (illustration). © NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC Unlike most meteor showers, the Geminids are not caused by a comet, but by the asteroid...

Artist's impression of the binary star system SSN 7: The smaller and hotter star with 32 solar masses (left) loses material to its 55...

Six early galaxies imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. © NASA/ESA/CSA, I Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology); Image processing: G. Brammer...

Jungstern X3a and its surroundings. © Florian Peißker Extreme conditions prevail around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way – enormous tidal...

Flags symbolize a claim to ownership. But that's not legal outside of Earth – at least according to the existing space treaties. ...

Planet-forming disk around protostar V883 Orionis and water molecules partially composed of deuterium (illustration). ©ESO/L. Calçada ...

She senses the inner values ​​of another world: InSight landed on November 26, 2018 in the Martian plane Elysium Planitia. Since then, the...

A close pair: The already cooled moon above the still hellish volcanic lava shaped Earth. Because the two celestial bodies used to orbit...

Star-forming region N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 170,000 light-years away: The oval bubble several hundred light-years across on the right, which was...

What formed the beginning of all being - or did it exist at all? Artist's rendering of the Big Bang. ...

Jupiter's north: The color-enhanced image was taken by Juno on April 1, 2018, about 12,300 kilometers above the clouds. © NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS, Kevin M. Gil ...

Light pollution from the very dark sky (left) to the inner-city sky. © NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, P. Marenfeld ...

Active solar region on the day before a flare (left) and before a calm day. © NASA/SDO/AIA/Dissauer et al. 2022 ...

Center of the Chameleon I cold molecular cloud, imaged by the James Webb Telescope. © © NASA/ESA/CSA and M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) ...

Search for extraterrestrial organisms: Whether humans will ever land on Mars is still a long way off, but this is planned before 2050. One...

Gaia's Galaxy: The sky in catalog EDR3 is based on 34 months of measurement time by the European astrometry satellite Gaia and was published...