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Totality! See incredible photos of the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse from across Europe (opens the original)
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The first photos from yesterday's total solar eclipse are here, and they're spectacular. Captured Wednesday (Aug. 12) by NASA scientists during a special eclipse livestream from Spain, the images show the moon completely blocking the visible surface of the sun, plunging the daytime sky into twilight for roughly 90 seconds and allowing our star's elusive corona (its wispy outer atmosphere) to shine through. In this incredible image taken with a solar-filtered telescope, the moon appears as a blac
Watch now! The Aug. 12 total solar eclipse has begun (live stream) (opens the original)
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The eclipse has begun! Today (Aug. 12), the new moon swoops in front of the sun, casting its dark shadow across a stretch of Earth from Iceland and Greenland to northern Spain. Viewers in the path of the shadow, known as the path of totality, will see a stunning total solar eclipse. Meanwhile, millions of skywatchers in North America and Europe will be treated to a partial eclipse, with the moon covering more than 90% of the sun's visible surface in some areas.NASA is live-streaming the entire e
SpaceX's out-of-control rocket part tore a hole in the moon's surface after smashing into it at 5,000 mph, first satellite images show (opens the original)
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In the dead of night on Wednesday (Aug. 5), part of a defunct SpaceX rocket slammed into the moon at more than 5,000 mph (8,000 km/h) — and a Korean lunar satellite has just shared the first images of the aftermath. A series of photos snapped by South Korea's Danuri lunar orbiter on Wednesday reveal a small, blackened crater at the alleged site where a used Falcon 9 upper stage crashed into the lunar surface around 2:35 a.m. ET. The crash occurred near Einstein crater, on the northwestern limb o
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft awakens from yearlong hibernation to do unprecedented science beyond Pluto (opens the original)
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There's nothing more disorienting than falling asleep in transit only to wake up and find you've somehow drifted billions of miles beyond the orbit of Pluto. Fortunately for NASA's New Horizon spacecraft, which scientists just awakened from a nearly yearlong hibernation at the solar system's edge, all systems are in "good health," according to a NASA statement. Now, with the probe recovered from its 321-day sleep and beginning to transmit science data again, New Horizons appears ready to continu
James Webb telescope uses trippy Einstein prediction to probe the farthest reaches of the universe — Space photo of the week (opens the original)
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What it is: The collision-prone galaxy cluster MACS J0553.4-3342 Where it is: In the constellation Columba Around 100 years ago, Albert Einstein made an audacious prediction about space. The frequently right (but occasionally wrong) physicist theorized that, just as the curved lens of a magnifying glass bends light to increase an object's apparent size, massive celestial objects can curve the very fabric of the universe with their gravity — causing distant sources of light to bend, warp, and app
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