The Butterfly nebula, an example of a star forming region in the Tarantula nebula. The white scale bar is 2 light years or about 120,000…
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An updated model suggests the shape of the Sun’s bubble of influence, the heliosphere (seen in yellow), may be a deflated croissant shape, rather than…
The proposed Trident mission would explore Neptune’s moon Triton, seen here in a global color mosaic with an artist’s concept of an ionosphere. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech…
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Today, November 11, 2019, we’re in for a rare treat, as the innermost planet, Mercury, passes directly in front…