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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
