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Topic: Astronomy (page 6)

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) was discovered by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility this year in early March. (NASA/Dan Bartlett)

How to see a comet coming close to Earth

Troy Farah
Artist’s concept of a fallback disk around pulsar 4U 0142+61. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC))

A strange star with a solid surface

Troy Farah
A man shovels snow in near whiteout conditions during a noreaster in Marshfield, Massachusetts, on January 29, 2022. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

How Earth’s tilt affects January

Deanna Hence - The Conversation
(NASA)

A gamma-ray burst challenges physics

Eleonora Troja, Simone Dichiara - The Conversation
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James Webb Telescope and Pillars of Creation (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NASA)

Webb's spectacular year one

Matthew Rozsa
Meteorite from outer space, falling toward planet Earth (Getty Images/dottedhippo)

Apocalyptic asteroid found near Venus

Matthew Rozsa
A slice of the El Ali meteorite (Courtesy of University of Alberta Meteorite Collection)

A space rock harbors unknown minerals

Troy Farah
(Getty/Salon)

The war between education and disaster

Martin Rees
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Illustration of two black holes orbiting each other emitting gravitational waves, a prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity (Getty Images/Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library)

Gravity: The final frontier

Matthew Rozsa
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft launches on the Artemis I flight test, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, from Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

How NASA is going back to the Moon

Troy Farah
The Green Bank Telescope is seen in Green Bank, West Virginia on May 28, 2018. Green Bank is part of the US Radio Quiet Zone, where wireless telecommunications signals are banned to prevent transmissions interfering with a number of radio telescopes in the area. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Macy Huston, Jason Wright
Asteroid Heading to Planet Earth (Getty Images/ronib1979)

Scientists spot "planet killer" asteroid

Matthew Rozsa
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An XMM-Newton Mosaic of the Galactic Supernova Remnant HESS J1731-347 (Image courtesy of Victor Doroshenko, Gerd Pühlhofer and ESA / XMM-Newton, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

Is this the first "strange star"?

Troy Farah
James Webb Telescope and Pillars of Creation (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NASA)

Webb's stunning Pillars of Creation pic

Matthew Rozsa
Artist’s interpretation of the calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk. Shown in orange is the calcium-rich material created in the explosion. Purple coloring represents gas shedded by the star right before the explosion, which then produced bright X-ray emission when the material collided with the supernova shockwave. (Aaron M. Geller, Northwestern University)

Gamma ray pulse sweeps Earth

Matthew Rozsa
This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)

NASA asteroid crash a smashing success

Troy Farah
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UFO landing in the forest meadow (Getty Images/gremlin)

A physicist debunks the Ukraine UFOs

Avi Loeb
This artist’s impression shows the planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 85512 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This planet is one of sixteen super-Earths discovered by the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory. This planet is about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth and lies at the edge of the habitable zone around the star, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, could potentially exist. (ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger)

Super-Earths: Larger and more habitable

Chris Impey - The Conversation
James Webb Space Telescope (Getty Images/NASA)

James Webb finds: Jupiter and more

Matthew Rozsa
Exoplanet with moons, illustration (Getty Images/PHOTOSTOCK-ISRAEL/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

A real life "Waterworld" planet

Troy Farah
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U.S. Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray explains a video of unidentified aerial phenomena, as he testifies before a House Intelligence Committee subcommittee hearing at the U.S. Capitol on May 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Navy has UFO vids, won't release them

Troy Farah
Digitally created space scene with the orbital view on the Earth-like planet and it's moons (Getty Images/Lev Savitskiy)

Two new Earth-like planets discovered

Troy Farah
Planet Neptune and diamonds (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Galactic forecast: Diamond rain

Troy Farah
NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center on Sept. 1, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Why NASA's Artemis 1 mission matters

Jack Burns - The Conversation
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