The space of night is infinite,
The blackness and emptiness
Crossed only by thin bright fences
Of logic

— Kenneth Rexroth
"Theory of Numbers"

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Giant telescope mirror gets a cleaning | Space photo of the day for June 17, 2025

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 9:00am
Staff at the European Southern Observatory have a system to clean the La Silla Observatory's delicate mirrors without breaking them.
Categories: Astronomy

Huge galaxy cluster is wrapped in a cocoon 20 million light-years wide, NASA space telescope finds

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 8:00am
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered an entire galaxy cluster wrapped in a 20 million light-year-wide envelope of charged particles.
Categories: Astronomy

50 years later, Apollo 17’s moon samples are still revealing secrets about lunar volcanoes

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 6:00am
The beads are over 3.3 billion years old, and date from the formation of the "Man in the Moon."
Categories: Astronomy