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NASA Parker Solar Probe Makes History - Closest Approach to the Sun

On December 24, 2024 NASA’s Parker Solar Probe came closer to the sun than anything has before, at about 3.86 million miles. It also became the fastest man-made object ever, clocking in at 430,000 mph!
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100 Meteors Per Hour: Quadrantid Meteor Shower

What January meteor shower may be one of the best of 2025? The Quadrantids will peak with up to 100 meteors per hour in the Northern Hemisphere!
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Finding Alien Life: Avi Loeb on Investing Dollars in the Search

How can we improve our search for life in the universe? In this video, Dr. Avi Loeb, Professor of Science at Harvard University, explains how billions of dollars of funding is going towards understanding dark matter.
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Christmas Lights Galaxy: Early Universe Picture

What would our own Milky Way Galaxy have looked like when it was very young? In this video, Micaela Bagley, Project Scientist at NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, describes the Firefly Sparkle Galaxy, also known as the “Christmas lights” galaxy.
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Ode to Arecibo

This month marks the 4th anniversary of the epic, catastrophic failure of the Arecibo Radio Observatory. It was already marked for decommissioning before gravity decided to speed things up, but the collapse was awesome in the most literal sense of the...
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Cold Moon Returns: Full Moon Fun Facts

What makes this December’s full moon special? This year’s Cold Moon is the first full moon to return to its regular size after an incredible run of four supermoons in a row which started this summer!
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Last Meteor Shower of 2024!

What is the last meteor shower of the year? The Ursids will appear in Northern Hemisphere skies overnight on December 21 to 22!
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Can AI Find Life Beyond Earth?

What is the role of AI in space travel? Avi Loeb, Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation at Harvard University, explains how artificial intelligence could be designed to withstand long travel, and programmed to look for signs of life on...
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120 Meteors Per Hour: Geminids Shower

What December meteor shower is one of the best of the year? The Geminids will bring up to 120 meteors per hour to night skies across the world from the evening of December 13 to the early morning of December 14!
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The Pleiades: Humanity’s Oldest Story?

This time of year in the Northern Hemisphere is a wonderful time for stargazing. Several of the brightest stars in Earth’s sky are visible in the cold months and an intriguing little cluster of stars—the Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters.
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Geminids Meteor Shower & Mercury in the Night Sky!

Your December night sky forecast is here! This month, Mercury will be visible in the dark night sky, when it’s usually lost in the glare of the sun or hard to see low at twilight.
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So You Want to Buy a Telescope

When a lot of folks try for the first time to wade into the murky waters of buying a telescope, usually as a holiday gift for a budding astronomy enthusiast in their lives, there’s a lot to consider, and a lot of terms that are unfamiliar.
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Why Haven’t We Found Aliens? Fermi Paradox Explained

Why haven’t we found life elsewhere in the universe? This is the question of the Fermi Paradox.
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Planetary Parade!

People love a planet. It’s a truth I’ve had to face often in the Planetarium. Which is why it’s so lucky that, at the moment, we’re getting a positive parade of planets easily visible in our night sky! Here’s what’s up and how to find them.
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The Astronaut’s Dilemma: What Happens to Human Bodies in Space

There’s been a lot of stuff in the news lately about space and its affect on the human body. Just recently, one astronaut had to be hospitalized overnight. Meanwhile astronaut Suni Williams, is fending off tabloid reports stating that she is losing a lot...