Astronomical objects

A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said.

The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it passing Jupiter in March last year.

The solar system is vast & the space between our star system and our closest neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is even more vast

“Imagine if Earth were much, much closer to the Sun”

Astronomers have discovered that a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid has an unusual accelerating spin that could eventually change its trajectory

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The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through time and huge amounts of dust to capture a new image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, revealing the spinning ring of color in unprecedented clarity, NASA and the European Space Agency said on Aug. 2.

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Five years ago the comet was journeying between Saturn & Uranus but as it slowly nears us amateur astronomers have their scopes trained on it

NASA's Europa Clipper mission is one step closer to starting its journey to Jupiter's icy moon.

The main body of Europa Clipper is an aluminum cylinder that clocks in at 10 feet (3 meters) tall and 5 feet (1.5 m) wide.