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January 22, 2016

Draconid meteor shower: What you need to know

Tonight is the night to catch a glimpse of a shooting star. The rare opportunity for skywatchers comes Thursday and Friday with the annual Draconid meteor shower, which is caused by the remains of a comet raining down on Earth

January 21, 2016

Hubble showcases star cluster that dazzles like diamonds

Single stars rarely impress. But when you have a ton of them as you do here, it’s hard not to be mesmerized.

January 21, 2016

Scientists stunned by brightest-ever supernova

Scientists may have just spotted the most powerful supernova ever seen, some 3.8 billion light years away in deep space.

January 19, 2016

Five 'bright' planets set to align in dawn sky

Stargazers are in for a treat starting Wednesday when all five visible planets – Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, will be visible in the morning sky.

January 15, 2016

Could this be the second largest black hole in the Milky Way?

Using the Nobeyama 45-meter radio telescope, a team of astronomers led by Tomoharu Oka, a professor at Keio University in Japan, came to that conclusion after first spotting an enigmatic gas cloud called CO-0.40-0.22, located only 200 light-years away from the center of the Milky Way.

January 14, 2016

'Green Pea' galaxies may explain transformation of the universe

About a billion years after the Big Bang, the universe began to heat up for a second time and hydrogen became ionized. But what was responsible for this transformation that was critical to understanding the universe as it is today?

January 13, 2016

NASA releases stunning Ceres close-up images

NASA has released stunning images of Ceres that show the dwarf planet’s surface in incredible detail.

January 8, 2016

Scientists may have discovered remnants of the first stars

An ancient cloud of gas many billions of light years from Earth may contain the signature of the very first stars that formed in the Universe.

January 8, 2016

NASA's James Webb space telescope passes critical milestone

After years of budget woes and concerns about cost, the James Webb Space Telescope appears to be on track after NASA announced that a dozen of its eighteen mirror segments that make up the primary mirror have been installed.

January 6, 2016

Rare galaxy found with 2 black holes - one starved of stars

An astrophysicist has discovered something even rarer than a double-black hole galaxy: a skinny black hole.