Small Magellanic Cloud

What are Magellanic Clouds?

Beyond the Milky Way Galaxy lies the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, two bundles of stars and dust that orbit…

7 years ago

Caterpillar Comet Poses for Pictures En Route to Mars

Now that's pure gorgeous. As Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring sidles towards its October 19th encounter with Mars, it's passing a trio of sumptuous…

10 years ago

Astronomers Find Evidence of a Strange Type of Star

One has never been spotted for sure in the wild jungle of strange stellar objects out there, but astronomers now…

10 years ago

Astronomers Uncover a Crime of Galactic Proportions

As the Milky Way rises over the horizon at the European Southern Observatory, its companion galaxies also come into view.…

11 years ago

We Are Stardust… We Are Cold Then

[/caption] When we think of stars, we might think of their building blocks as white hot... But that's not particularly…

12 years ago