Mysterious ‘UFO galaxies’ are big, red and really dusty

by ZephirAWT to /s/ScienceUncensored from earthsky.org

What’s a supermoon? We’re about to have 4 in a row including the partial eclipse of Moon

by ZephirAWT to /s/ScienceUncensored from earthsky.org

A new supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy, M101, is the closest to Earth in a decade: "M101 is 21 million light-years away...even though it’s the closest in a decade, it’s still quite far away. In fact, for a supernova to have an effect on Earth, it would have to be within 50 light-years of our planet"

by neolib to /s/space from earthsky.org

Heartbreaking News. After 57 years as a world-class resource for astronomy, the iconic Arecibo telescope is to be decommissioned. The dish-type radio telescope – built into a natural depression in the landscape in Puerto Rico – appears to be headed for a “controlled disassembly” EarthSky.org

by EndlessSunflowers to /s/space from earthsky.org

Asteroid or space junk? Approaching object might become Earth’s mini-moon | EarthSky.org - ready to meet your 2020 SO?

by bobbobbybob to /s/whatever from earthsky.org

New View of Milky Way’s Center, showing a region more than 600 light-years across, revealing unprecedented details

by EndlessSunflowers to /s/space from earthsky.org

Use Orion’s Belt To Find Other Stars - Orion’s Belt points in one direction to Aldebaran and in the other direction to Sirius

by EndlessSunflowers to /s/space from earthsky.org

This week – March 12, 2019 – an international group of astronomers is celebrating humanity’s discovery of the 4,001st exoplanet, or planet orbiting a distant star. "Today is a celebration day as we are now over 4,000 planets validated in our database, and this number will grow very quickly"

by EndlessSunflowers to /s/space from earthsky.org

How did humans first reach America? | EarthSky.org

by Vigte to /s/YoungerDryas from earthsky.org

The moon is 1/400th the size of the sun but also 1/400th the distance from Earth which results in the moon and the sun being the same size in the sky, a coincidence not shared by any other known planet-moon combination.

by Orangutan to /s/whatever from earthsky.org

All you need to know: Geminid meteor shower in 2018

by i_cansmellthat to /s/space from earthsky.org

Pleiades ascending

by i_cansmellthat to /s/space from earthsky.org

Perseid meteor shower: All you need to know

by i_cansmellthat to /s/science from earthsky.org

Friday the 13th supermoon solar eclipse

by i_cansmellthat to /s/science from earthsky.org

Vesturhorn reflection

by i_cansmellthat to /s/whoadude from earthsky.org

Lightning sprites over Oklahoma

by i_cansmellthat to /s/pics from earthsky.org

Scientists discover a new type of magnetic event

by i_cansmellthat to /s/science from earthsky.org