There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

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As the Sun set, a bright Full Moon rose on July 10.


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Stars are forming in Lynds Dark Nebula


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Why isn't this ant a big sphere?


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Private Ax-4 astronauts heading back to Earth early July 14: Watch it live

Space.com - 7 hours 50 min ago
The private Ax-4 astronaut mission will undock from the International Space Station on Monday morning (July 14), and you can watch the action live.
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'Pebble' beaches around young stars join together to form planets

Space.com - 8 hours 50 min ago
Planetary construction sites around other stars are filled with pebbles, and for the first time radio telescopes have detected these tiny chunks of rock that stick together to form planets.
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Experts ask where the center of the universe is

Space.com - 9 hours 50 min ago
With the universe constantly expanding, scientists have a hard time finding where its center is.
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Feast your eyes on the shortlisted pics for the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Awards (photos)

Space.com - 10 hours 50 min ago
The winners will be announced during a ceremony in September.
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Earth may have at least 6 'minimoons' at any given time. Where do they come from?

Space.com - 12 hours 50 min ago
"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers away."
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SpaceX launches mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit (video)

Space.com - 17 hours 28 min ago
SpaceX launched a mystery satellite to geostationary transfer orbit from Florida's Space Coast early Sunday morning (July 13).
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Magnets Could Become the Next Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors

Universe Today - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 5:41pm

When Einstein's predicted ripples in spacetime pass through magnetic fields, they cause the current carrying wires to dance at the gravitational wave frequency, creating potentially detectable electrical signals. Researchers have discovered that the same powerful magnets used to hunt for dark matter could double as gravitational wave detectors. This means experiments already searching for the universe's most elusive particles could simultaneously capture collisions between black holes and neutron stars, getting two of physics' most ambitious experiments for the price of one, while potentially opening entirely new windows into the universe's most violent events.

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These are the Most Concerning Pieces of Space Debris

Universe Today - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 5:41pm

There are tens of thousands of pieces of space debris hurling around the Earth right now. Since it can cost tens of millions of dollars to remove just a single piece of space debris, which are the ones that we should be most concerned with? A few years ago, 11 teams of experts came together to rank the 50 most concerning pieces of debris, the ones that they think would be the highest priority. Although they used different approaches, 20-40% of the objects ended up on several experts' lists.

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Hubble Images Used to Create a Beautiful Portrait of the Abell 209 Galaxy Cluster

Universe Today - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 5:41pm

Portrait of a galaxy cluster

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California Desert Dunes Hold Keys to Understanding Mars' Shifting Sands

Universe Today - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 5:41pm

Armed with a drone and a device which is a cross between a scoop and a spatula, a graduate student is cracking the code of Mars by studying California's desert dunes. By comparing wind carved patterns in the Algodones Desert with satellite images of the Red Planet, researchers are creating humanity's first comprehensive database of Martian sand formations, work that could determine where future astronauts can safely establish bases without getting buried alive. Her pioneering research proves that sometimes the keys to exploring alien worlds aren't found in billion dollar space missions, but in the shifting sands right here on Earth.

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Are We in a Giant Void? That Would Help Explain the Hubble Tension

Universe Today - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 5:41pm

It's assumed that our region of the Universe isn't special, and the Hubble Tension, or mismatch of expansion rates of the Universe at different times, is happening everywhere. But what if our place is unusual, for example, if the Milky Way is inside a lower-density region of the Universe, with stronger gravity pulling material away from us in all directions? A new paper suggests we might be in a void that's emptying out towards higher-density regions all around us.

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Scientists Discover Uranus Has a Dancing Partner

Universe Today - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 5:41pm

Hidden in the darkness between Uranus and Neptune, a team of astronomers have discovered a small world locked in a million year gravitational waltz with Uranus. The asteroid enjoying this celestial dance with Uranus completes exactly three orbits for every four of the ice giant, representing the first known stable partnership of its kind in this remote region of the Solar System. The discovery proves that even in the apparent chaos of space, there are elegant mathematical relationships that have persisted, revealing new secrets about how gravitational forces sculpt the architecture of our planetary system.

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This is the Closest Picture Ever Taken of the Sun

Universe Today - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 5:41pm

December 24th, 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe made its closest approach to the Sun so far, coming within just 6.1 million km from the surface of the Sun. During this flyby, it captured data and images, including this incredible picture using the Wide Field Imager for Solar Probe, or WISPR. In this WISPR image, you can see the corona and solar wind, charged particles coming from the Sun, hurled across the Solar System. The next pass will happen in September.

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