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The Sun and Moon Today

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Satellite Events for Tonight

Event: Stargazing Nights

Event: Stargazing Nights

Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events

When: Fri, Dec 12, 2025 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Welcome to the Frosty Drew Observatory Stargazing Nights! Tonight we will open the Observatory, Science Center and Sky Theatre at 7:00 offering fabulous astronomy experiences. Read about it....
  • By: Frosty Drew Observatory and Science Center Events
  • On: Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:56:44 EDT

The Search for Life Tops NASA's Science Goals for the First Human Mars Mission

Reported by Universe Today

A new report identifies searching for life as the top science priority for humanity's first landing on Mars, ranking it above understanding water cycles, mapping geology, or even studying how the Martian environment affects astronaut health. The report out...
  • By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
  • On: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:47 +0000

A Rare Gourd

Reported by NASA

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary ne...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:18 +0000

NASA Announces Plan to Map Milky Way With Roman Space Telescope

Reported by NASA

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in unprecedented detail. In one month of observations spread across two years, the survey will unveil tens of bi...
  • By: NASA
  • On: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:00 +0000

Is the Big Bang a Myth? Part 1: Creation Stories

Reported by Universe Today

Let’s say you are transported back in time to some ancient culture. And along the way you somehow forget everything you knew about modern cosmology (don’t worry about the details, it’s just to get us going here, pretend if you have to that it’s a v...
  • By: Paul Sutter (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/pmsutter)
  • On: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:17 +0000

Gravitational Lenses Deliver a Verdict on the Hubble Tension

Reported by Universe Today

The Hubble Tension is one of the great mysteries of cosmology. Solving it might require a fundamental change in how we understand the universe - but scientists have to prove it actually exists first. A new paper from a collective of cosmologist researchers...
  • By: Andy Tomaswick (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/andy-tomaswick)
  • On: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:02 +0000