Event: Summer Stargazing Nights
Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
When: Fri, Jul 18, 2025 6:30 pm - 11:00 pm
Welcome to the Frosty Drew Summer Stargazing Nights! Tonight we will open the Observatory, Science Center and Sky Theatre at 6:30 pm offering fabulous astronomy experiences. Read about it....- By: Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
- On: Tue, 13 May 2025 12:38:26 EDT
A hidden molecular cloud near our Milky Way’s center
Reported by Space | EarthSky
Researchers have discovered a hidden molecular cloud in our Milky Way galaxy near its central bar. The area is likely a region of star birth.
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:30 +0000
Hubble Digs Up Galactic Time Capsule
Reported by NASA
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the field of stars that is NGC 1786. The globular cluster is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way Galaxy that is approximately 160,000 light-years away fr...
- By: NASA
- On: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:00 +0000
The Day the Earth Smiled at Saturn 12 years ago
Reported by Space | EarthSky
July 19 is the 12th anniversary of The Day the Earth Smiled, the 3rd-ever image of Earth from the outer solar system, taken by the great Cassini spacecraft.
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:00 +0000
Biggest black hole merger ever breaks the universe’s rules
Reported by Space | EarthSky
Cutting-edge gravitational wave detectors have found most massive black hole merger yet. Discoverers say it defies our understanding of how black holes form.
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- By: Space | EarthSky
- On: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:00 +0000
NASA, Oxford Discover Warmer Uranus Than Once Thought
Reported by NASA
KEY POINTS For millennia, astronomers thought Uranus was no more than a distant star. It wasn’t until the late 18th century that Uranus was universally accepted as a planet. To this day, the ringed, blue world subverts scientists’ expectations, but new...
- By: NASA
- On: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 19:21 +0000