Astronomy

Daniel Caton is part of a movement that seeks to educate people about the downsides of light pollution and preserve places where the stars, planets and other phenomena of space can be seen by the naked eye.

Recently, seven rocky, Earth-like planets were discovered orbiting a nearby star adding to a catalog of 3,500 known extrasolar or exoplanets. Find out how we find planets like these, and what's so cool about them.

Unusual galaxies can challenge our understanding of the universe. They're also, generally, pretty cool and exciting.

For years, there have been reports of strange lights seen in the Linville Gorge region of Western North Carolina. They're known as the Brown Mountain…

Jupiter - the Roman God of the Sky and Thunder, King of the gods, and the name given to the largest planet in our solar system. It's a planet so large that, not including the sun, the rest of the solar system would fit inside with plenty of room to spare.Jupiter's moons are named after the god's many lovers. According to mythology, when Jupiter thought his wife suspected him of cheating, he turned himself into a cloud to cover his affairs.Now, NASA has sent the Juno Spacecraft, named after Jupiter's wife, to discover just what Jupiter has hidden beneath its clouds.

To make enough of the elements to support the chemical complexity of biology, we need an enormously old universe. Stars truly are the factories of life. But for you or your cat to exist, several generations of stars need to have come and gone - each born from the atoms of previous generations, like the babies of the Orion Nebula.

Today you have a rare opportunity today to see a planet in motion. There's a window of time beginning this morning until about 2:40pm this afternoon when…

To make enough of the elements to support the chemical complexity of biology, we need an enormously old universe. Stars truly are the factories of life. But for you or your cat to exist, several generations of stars need to have come and gone - each born from the atoms of previous generations, like the babies of the Orion Nebula.

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