Suicidal Planet WASP-18, Creator of Its Own Demise

A distant planet in a far away solar system, WASP-18, has been identified by astronomers as a "suicidal planet" because its own behavior as it orbits it sun is causing destructive cosmic forces. WASP-18 is orbiting too close to its sun which is causing plasma tides on the...

New Photos of Swan Nebula Star Birth Revealed

In recent years, astronomers have discovered that the Swan Nebula is one of the youngest and most massive star in the Milky Way.The Swan Nebula Star, illuminating the sky at night with its dust composition and gas,...

Comet Holmes Still Visible

"2007-12-07: I saw Comet Holmes again the night before last, one of the few clear nights during this cloudy late autumn near Erie’s southern shore. Being far enough from city lights to see the milk of the Milky...

New Phantom Galaxy Picture from Hubble Telescope

" 2007-11-30: Yesterday NASA and the European Space Agency released a nice picture of galaxy M74 composed from data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 & 2005.x40 The galaxy is in Pisces, about 32...

Earth from Sagittarius Dwarf, not Milky Way?

Purportedly, "new" evidence from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) project suggests our solar system may actually be from the Sagittarius Dwarf galaxy, and that this is the cause of Earth's global...

You Are Here

"New map of Milky Way charts where stars are born This is the cosmological equivalent of the shopping mall map......You Are Here......"

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