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Comet 3I/ATLAS Has A Green Glow In New Color Images From Gemini North December 17, 2025
Gemini North captured new images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after it reemerged from behind the Sun on its path out of the Solar System. The data were collected during a Shadow the Scientists session — a unique outreach initiative that invites students around the world to join researchers as they observe the Universe on the world’s […]
ESA's XMM-Newton Examines Comet 3I/ATLAS Prior to Closest Earth Passage Friday December 17, 2025
Everyone’s favorite interstellar comet posed for one more portrait recently. The European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton mission nabbed 3I/ATLAS on December 3rd from about 283 million kilometers distant. This comes as the comet is set to make its closest passage versus Earth this coming Friday, on December 19th.
Why Most Exoplanets Are Magma Worlds December 17, 2025
In astronomy, there is a concept called “degeneracy”. It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to describe data that could be interpreted multiple ways. In some cases, that interpretation is translated into exciting new possibilities. But many times, when that happens, other, more mundane explanations are ignored for the publicity […]
The First Alien Civilization We Encounter Will Be Extremely Loud December 16, 2025
When we gaze up at the night sky, we assume that what we're seeing is a representative population of similar stars at similar distances. But it's not. The stars we see are a mixture of massive and small, distant and near. In fact, we can't even see our closest neighbour, Proxima Centauri. We see these […]
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Will Teach Us A Lot More About Cosmic Voids December 16, 2025
The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe features massive filaments where galaxy clusters and superclusters reside. In between these filaments are cosmic voids, vast regions that are nearly empty. The Nancy Grace Roman will map and study 80,000 of these voids to place constraints on Dark Energy drives the expansion of the Universe.