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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Astronomy Picture of the Day

NASA Astronaut Anil Menon

Reported by NASA

NASA astronaut Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Jan. 8, 2026. Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, acco...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:11 +0000

NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes

Reported by NASA

Astronomers using archival data from Hubble and supportive observations from Webb have located their first stellar-mass black hole in the star cluster Omega Centauri....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:00 +0000

Watching Dawn and Dusk on a Distant Hot Jupiter

Reported by Universe Today

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have caught an extreme, tidally locked exoplanet in the act of showing two very different faces at once, a fierce, wind battered hemisphere and a comparatively gentler half. The discovery not only reveals a ...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:51 +0000

Listening for the Universe's Faintest Whispers, a Billion Supernovae at Once

Reported by Universe Today

Buried a kilometre underground in Japan, one of the world's most sensitive detectors may have caught its first faint trace of a sound scientists have been straining to hear for decades, the combined whisper of every supernova that has ever exploded across ...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:37 +0000

Wild, Scenic, and Increasingly Rusty

Reported by NASA

Orange streams are now being spotted in hundreds of watersheds in permafrost areas throughout Alaska’s Brooks Range....
  • By: NASA
  • On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:01 +0000

Most Of Moon’s Water Likely Remains Chemically Bound In Its Deep Interior

Reported by Universe Today

Aside from an unknown quantity of water in the Moon’s permanently shaded polar craters, the lion’s share of what water the Moon may have is likely chemically bound in its deep interior....
  • By: Bruce Dorminey (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/bruce)
  • On: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:05 +0000