APOD: 2026 August 11 – Six Moons of Saturn
Reported by NASA
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- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:05 +0000
Bountiful Roebuck Bay
Reported by NASA
Tidal and seasonal shifts leave their mark on this crescent-shaped, productive bay in Western Australia’s Kimberley region....
- By: NASA
- On: Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:01 +0000
Seven Needles, 800,000 Haystacks
Reported by Universe Today
A quasar is a supermassive black hole in the act of feeding, and it’s so bright that it drowns out the galaxy it sits in. That is a nuisance if you want to weigh the galaxy and weighing it is exactly what you need to do to understand how black holes and ...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:07 +0000
The Odds of Finding Water on Mars
Reported by Universe Today
Mars has plenty of water, and almost all of it is in the wrong place. The poles are rich in ice, the equator, where you would actually want to land, has none within reach. That leaves the mid-latitudes, and until now the honest answer about what lies benea...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:57 +0000
The Telescope That Points Itself
Reported by Universe Today
Time on a large professional telescope is one of the scarcest resources in science. Astronomers wait months for a few hours, and every one of those hours is a running argument with the weather, the Moon and the atmosphere. Point at the wrong target at the ...
- By: Mark Thompson (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/mark)
- On: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:45 +0000
Interstellar Travel III: Antimatter to the Rescue?
Reported by Universe Today
With the end of the Space Age and the winding down of the Cold War, scientists again returned to the question of interstellar flight. Having failed to realize a working concept that could be realized in the near term, more exotic ideas began to be consider...
- By: Matthew Williams (https://www.universetoday.com/authors/houseofwilliams)
- On: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:39 +0000