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Mars may experience global auroras on Monday after a solar flare's charged particles reach its atmosphere — and NASA's ...
As spring advances, the night sky undergoes a quiet transformation. The familiar winter constellations fade toward the west, ...
On Episode 161 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik catch up on headlines ... and space dad jokes! We're going to update you on the ever-slimming NASA budget, the latest news on the Voyager ...
Visible for some five hours after sunset is Mars, making its way through Cancer. Shining at 1st magnitude, this ruddy point ...
This was the first time an aurora had been reported from the surface of a planet other than Earth, the researchers noted.
Arcturus (at a magnitude of -0.05), one of the few stars mentioned by name in the Bible, is a giant, about 25 times the ...
Scientists directed NASA’s Perseverance rover to take an image of the Martian sky after a solar storm in hopes that an aurora ...
Wausau Pilot & Review Central Wisconsin skywatchers can expect a visually rich week from May 16 to 23, with deep-sky targets, ...
The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...
Astronomers have captured visible auroras dazzling the skies above Mars — and they're unlike anything we can see on Earth.
By commanding Perseverance to look up at just the right time, an explosion of green speckles was recorded on the rover’s cameras.
Earth’s blue sky and familiar sun are just one version of reality. On Mercury, the sun blazes over three times larger than on Earth, while stars dominate the nights without atmospheric interference.