1+ week, 2+ day ago   (923+ words) starlust.org Solar flares explained: What these giant explosions on the Sun mean for us Occasionally, a sudden burst of electromagnetic energy from highly active regions on the Sun can result in the sunlit side of the Earth being exposed…...

5+ day ago   (359+ words) Michele Cirasuolo, the MOONS Principal Investigator, said watching first light happen was an emotional moment after years of work by the team. He said the instrument will let astronomers study stars and galaxies going back more than 13 billion years. While…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (138+ words) starlust.org 330 million light-years of darkness: The mystery of The Great Nothing—the Boötes Void Where the light of galaxies gives way to nothingness When astronomers peer into the night sky, they expect to see a multitude of lights, a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (295+ words) starlust.org Fastest star in the Milky Way: Record-breaking star orbits supermassive black hole at 15,500 miles per second Nobel Prize winner Reinhard Genzel, the MPE Director and a founding member of the collaboration that made the observations, says that “S301 opens…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (310+ words) Scientists believe that the expansion of the universe is accelerating instead of slowing down, and dark energy may be the cause of it. Roman’s broad view will collect infrared from a vast area of the sky potentially from a billion…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (565+ words) starlust.org NASA's Hubble images 'superbubble' in Milky Way satellite galaxy—and it's helping study how stars are born NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of a nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud—one of the dwarf…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (309+ words) The picture below was captured over Joshua Tree National Park on August 12 in Joshua Tree, California. The following image shows a meteor (bright streak on the left) during the Perseid meteor shower peak at Pedernales Falls State Park on August…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (220+ words) Proba-3 was launched as a monumental experiment—a ‘formation flying’ mission that includes two satellites that orbit the Earth together at a fixed distance. It is a technology demonstration that ESA states will “validate strategies, guidance, navigation and control and…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (205+ words) NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured new images of nebula PMR 1, nicknamed the "Exposed Cranium" nebula for its resemblance to a brain inside a transparent skull. The images were released February 25, 2026, showing a dying star about 5,000 light-years away in the…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago   (175+ words) A total solar eclipse was captured from space by the Meteosat-12 satellite. The eclipse occurred on Aug. 12, 2026, between 20:26 and 20:34 CEST, as parts of the Iberian Peninsula experienced totality. From geostationary orbit 22,370 miles above Earth, Meteosat-12 tracked the Moon's shadow as…...