Is it Time for a Permanent Moon Base?
‘A manned base on the moon?’ appeared in the April 1952 issue of Popular Science. Lately, all eyes are turned towards the moon. NASA has another launch attempt [...]
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Largest yellow star ever seen revealed
A powerful telescope in Chile has imaged the largest yellow star ever discovered. The star, called HR 5171 A, shines 12,000 light-years from Earth in the center of a new [...]
Building blocks of life discovered on Saturn’s moon Enceladus
By analyzing old data from a dead spacecraft, scientists have found that Saturn’s moon Enceladus may be the most promising place to search for life beyond Earth. For the [...]
Gravitational Lensing Reveals Blue Supergiant 9 Billion Light Years Away
Icarus, whose official name is MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1, is the farthest individual star ever seen. It is only visible because it is being magnified by the gravity of a [...]
3 Hidden Protoplanets Orbiting a Newborn Star
Since the 1990s, scientists have detected thousands of exoplanets orbiting distant stars, but the discovery of baby protoplanets embedded within stellar expanses of gas and [...]
A 360 degree Video View of the Milky Way Galaxy
Panning Through the Milky Way: This video shows a continually looping view of the Spitzer Space Telescope’s new infrared view of our Milky Way Galaxy. The 360-degree [...]