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NASA just sent me this beautiful video of the Sun. "There's no science behind it," says Scott Wiessinger, Helio and Astrophysics Video Producer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, "but it's very pretty... 0 Published 1 day ago in
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Cory Poole—science teacher at University Preparatory School in Redding, California, and Gizmodo reader—has composed this 60-second time lapse video made from 700 frames captured by a Coronado ... 0 Published 3 days ago in
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You are looking at the Sun's Evil Eye. Or the Death Star ready to shoot its planet-destructing laser. Or Jean Grey turning into the Phoenix. Actually, I really don't care about what the hell is going on he... 0 Published 12 days ago in
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Look at this star turned into a fire dragon by a single point of nothingness with the mass of three million suns—its body twisted and deformed as a black beast 2.7 billion light-years away devours it... 0 Published 22 days ago in
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It's always the same. Just when I'm thinking that I couldn't be surprised by the Hubble Space Telescope anymore, it captures another image that leaves me in awe. Like this searchlight-like beams in space. ... 0 Published 27 days ago in
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Images of deep space are serenely beautiful. So much so that it's easy to forget just how immensely violent and massive everything is out there. Over at the Bad Astronomy Blog, Phil Plait shares an incredi... 0 Published 34 days ago in
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Space tourism is just getting under way, but before we know it spending a weekend on the moon will be commonplace. (If you have a kabillion dollars.) So in addition to warm socks, you'll want to make sure ... 0 Published 42 days ago in
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In 1964, two researchers at Bell Telephone Laboratories were desperately attempting to pin down a source of interference that their antenna kept encountering. Little did they know that their antenna, the H... 0 Published 48 days ago in
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No one asked James Cameron to trot out Titanic again with an annoying 3D makeover. But at least this time around the stars in scenes where the night sky is visible will all be in the right place. More&n... 0 Published 52 days ago in
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Those people who play with the Hubble telescope say that this galaxy looks "like a UFO." I call bollocks. This doesn't look like a UFO. This looks like the galaxy from a long, long time ago, the Star Wars ... 0 Published 53 days ago in
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Unless you run a restaurant or need an eye-catching trade show demo, you've probably never considered dropping $8,400 on a Microsoft Surface table. But this galaxy-bending demo of David Brown's NUIverse a... 0 Published 56 days ago in
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A mysterious stone monolith jutting from the ground near Manchester, England probably served as a crude seasonal calendar for Stone Age farmers. The moss-covered monolith has three faces and appears to be roughly 4,000 years old, based on dating of other... 0 Published 56 days ago in
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We've already brought you a beginner's guide to astronomy, and the heavens recently lined up for an impressive celestial peepshow. Now, it's time to take a look at the stargazing gear that will guarantee a... 0 Published 58 days ago in
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Check out this video, made from images taken by NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory. Notice that weird object the size of Jupiter apparently connected to the Sun. Is it the Death Star refueling? Galactus' s... 0 Published 70 days ago in
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When a sealed, pressurized vessel (say, you) is exposed to a vacuum (say, space), things tend to get splattery—hence the exo-suits. These fifteen examples of atmospheric apparel from our friends at O... 0 Published 76 days ago in
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Scientists have discovered two gigantic structures resembling soap bubbles in the middle of the Milky Way, above and below the galactic plane. How gigantic? 25,000 light-years tall, one quarter the size ... 0 Published 84 days ago in
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This is the best, the most detailed and clearest image of a dying star yet, according to NASA. Pause for a few seconds, expand the image, and really look at it. Imagine all that unstoppable fire in motion,... 0 Published 90 days ago in
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The next time you're out stargazing with your children, please make sure you shield them from Orion and his glowing member. Or at least bring a little loin cloth you can hold up to the sky. More &r... 0 Published 92 days ago in
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Zachory Berta says that "GJ1214b is like no planet we know of." Like Berta, part of a team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics lead by David Charbonneau, his colleagues were surprised when t... 0 Published 93 days ago in
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We've showed you the Paranal Observatory's laser-guided telescopes before, but never in gorgeous HD motion, replete with clear stars and deftly swiveling machinery. This is definitely one you're going to ... 0 Published 95 days ago in
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Amazing space photos don’t just happen. A lot of work goes into making them. This new video offers a behind-the-scenes look at how one facility, the W. M. Keck Observatory, produces its superb images. The Keck observatory is comprised of two telesc... 0 Published 98 days ago in
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In 1995, the world was astonished by the image of a group of 4-light-year-tall columns located in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years from here. So unimaginable it was that someone called them the Pillars ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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In a few million years, our dear Sun will look like this, a beautiful glowing eye of spent starstuff trash in the shape of Sauron's Eye. And no ring is going to save us from this one. More »... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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By Matthew Francis, Ars Technica For a variety of obvious reasons, it’s impossible to reproduce the exact environment in which galaxies form. The lack of direct experimental tests for the models astrophysicists use creates a disconnect between what... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Stunning picture of Venus and the moon, both visible that day. 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This new image of the Eagle Nebula—without a doubt one of the most amazing objects in space—is stunningly trippy. It combines the two opposite ends of the electromagnetic spectrum in one shot: ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This is exciting. If everything goes well, we may get the first-ever photo of a black hole really soon. A big number of astronomers are getting ready to achieve this feat using a global network of telescop... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Scientists use spectroscopy to examine the make-up of celestial objects. Now, they're taking the technology in a decidedly different direction and using it to detect ovarian cancer. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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An international team of astronomers have reached the most definitive conclusion, one with profound implications: our galaxy contains a minimum of 100 billion planets. Of those, most are small planets like... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Someone call John Lithgow and pull French Stewart out of storage, a team of astronomers using the Kepler telescope have discovered the smallest exoplanets, in the tiniest solar system, so far. And their ex... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Astronomers have found two more new planets orbiting binary stars: Kepler-34b and Kepler-35b. Their discovery, which follow the original Tatooine discovery back in September 2011, is quite important: now w... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Astronomers have discovered the far, far away galaxies. The farthest galaxy cluster ever seen, in fact, a whooping 13.1 billion light-years away. According to the researchers, "these galaxies formed during... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This spectacular fireball is an early shot of the first meteor shower of the year, captured on January 2 by Brian Emfinger. If you want to catch your own, get ready! The peak activity will be tomorrow. Her... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Repent, sinners! SATAN EXISTS! And his evil eye is looking at you from space! I mean, if there is an Eye of God* up there there has to be an Eye of Satan in permanent staring competition, right? More&n... 1 Published 100+ days ago in
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The little grey ball is Dione, the third largest Saturn moon. The large brown sphere with the ethereal haze is Titan, the largest. On the background, that's Saturn and its rings. Never an astronomy picture... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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The Canon 5200mm super telephoto lens may be the world's largest camera lens, but it's no match for lenses the size of an entire galaxy, so massive that they deform the light of objects behind them. They'r... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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In a research paper called "The population of natural Earth satellites", astronomers say that Earth has a second moon at any given time. While these moons are small, the scientific implications of this dis... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Rejoice, for comet Lovejoy has survived its close encounter with the Sun! NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has recorded the exact moment it went close behind the Sun, then out again on the other side, su... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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We knew there was a gigantic black hole in the middle of our very own Milky Way. Now we have images of how this monster eats. This video shows it devouring a massive gas cloud. More » ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Technically, this is a bipolar star-forming region called Sharpless 2-106. Not technically, NASA says that it "looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel." I think those image people at NASA are hitting th... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Space is crazy today. Supermassive gas-guzzling black holes, celestial angels and now the Silver Surfer on collision course with the Sun: it's comet Lovejoy approaching our home star. It will pass behind t... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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One of the year’s best meteor showers has to compete with a nearly full moon, but the show should still be pretty good no matter where you are. The Geminid meteor shower returns every December, thanks to the Earth’s plowing through debris ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This is Puppis A, the remnants of a violent supernova that exploded 3,700 years ago, glowing red as its shockwaves still heat up the dust around it. But Puppis A is really special because it hides the "Cos... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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Astronomers have captured the best-ever image of a star sucking the gas away from its bloated, dying companion. The mechanics of stellar vampirism, however, proved less dramatic than astronomers anticipated. They expected to see hot gas funneling from a ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This is the fastest spinning star in the universe yet. Rotating at a mindblowing one million miles per hour, it's so fast that its shape is not a sphere anymore. They call it VFTS 102. Boring. I prefer Bur... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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How close did asteroid 2005 YU55 get to Earth? Not close enough to endanger our civilization, but close enough to take some fun videos. Like this short film of its trajectory as it passed by recorded by... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This weird glowing spiral is located four hundred light years away from Earth, in the constellation Lupus. You may think it's a spiral galaxy, like our Milky Way. It's not. It's the strangest star ever fo... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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By Mark Brown, Wired UK Astronomers from France have made the first accurate measurements of the distant dwarf planet Eris, and found that it’s an almost exact doppelganger of the declassified ninth planet, Pluto. ... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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This is MACS 1206, a galaxy cluster 4.5 billion light-years from Earth. The photo was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a new broad sky survey. Can you notice something weird? Yes, some of... 0 Published 100+ days ago in
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