Whooo’s there? James Webb telescope spots ‘Cosmic Owl,’ super-rare structure formed...
Whoooooo's there? Just a "Cosmic Owl," the latest strange discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).A new study using JWST data has helped scientists spot an owl-faced object peering out at us from billions of light-years away. Formed through the extremely unusual collision of two rare ring galaxies, the structure also serves as a…
Episode 341: 305 – Can We Own Space
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What color is moonlight?
Blue moons, blood moons and honey moons have all worked their way into fiction and folklore, but the changing hue of our planet's biggest satellite remains rooted in science. The moon doesn't produce any of its own light, instead reflecting white light from the sun. So what color is moonlight and why does it sometimes…
Episode 372: 325 – Deep Space Gateway
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Buck Moon 2025: How to spot the year’s farthest full moon...
The first full moon of astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere is about to rise. Known as the Buck Moon, it will turn full Thursday, July 10 and will be one of the lowest-hanging full moons of the year.Although the moon officially reaches its full phase at 4:38 p.m. EDT on June 10, that moment…
Mercury’s ‘missing’ meteorites may have finally been found on Earth
Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so meteorites that come from the Moon and Mars. This is probably a result of asteroids hitting their surfaces and ejecting material towards our planet.It should also be physically possible for such debris to reach…
BANG! James Webb telescope catches stray galaxies in the Bullet Cluster:...
What it is: The Bullet ClusterWhere it is: 3.7 billion light-years from Earth, in the constellation CarinaWhen it was shared: June 30, 2025 You may like Why it's so special: Galaxy clusters act as a magnifying lens, shining light on the faintest and most distant objects — a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. On the…
Episode 399: 341: The Rocket Engines Carrying Us to Space. The...
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What are dwarf planets — and how many are there?
In 2006, Pluto was famously demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet. It remains the most famous dwarf planet today, but there are others in our solar system, including potentially hundreds that haven't been discovered yet.But what, exactly, is a dwarf planet? And how many dwarf planets are there?A dwarf planet is a celestial…
Spacecraft carrying cannabis and human remains crashes into the ocean
We've sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4th, 1957. As access to space has increased, thanks largely to the commercial space industry, so too have the types of payloads we are sending.Consider the Nyx capsule created by German aerospace startup The Exploration Company, which launched…
