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Life might get dull at the core of M15 but the sky would always be bright with stars! In fact, only 40,000 light-years away in the constellation Pegas... ¡La vida podría volverse monótona en el núcleo de M15, pero el cielo siempre estaría iluminado por estrellas! De hecho, a tan solo 40.000 años luz de ...
Last month the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft swooped closer to Eros, orbiting only 22 miles (36 kilometers) from the center of the asteroid. These two ima... El mes pasado, la nave espacial NEAR Shoemaker se acercó aún más a Eros, orbitando a solo 22 millas (36 kilómetros) del centro del asteroide. Estas do...
The Crescent Nebula is a rapidly expanding shell of gas surrounding a dying star. In this recently released image by the Hubble Space Telescope, a br... La Nebulosa Creciente es una envoltura de gas en rápida expansión que rodea a una estrella moribunda. En esta imagen recientemente publicada por el Te...
Why do comets emit X-rays? First discovered during the passing of Comet Hyakutake in 1996, the reason a cold comet would produce hot X-rays has since... ¿Por qué los cometas emiten rayos X? Descubierto por primera vez durante el paso del cometa Hyakutake en 1996, el motivo por el cual un cometa frío po...
Unexpectedly, Comet LINEAR is breaking up. In retrospect, clues of its demise have been surfacing all month as the new comet has been approaching the... Inesperadamente, el cometa LINEAR está fragmentándose. En retrospectiva, los indicios de su desintegración han venido surgiendo durante todo el mes, m...
Like a butterfly, a white dwarf star begins its life by casting off a cocoon that enclosed its former self. In this analogy, however, the Sun would b... Como una mariposa, una estrella enana blanca comienza su vida desprendiéndose del capullo que envolvía su forma anterior. En esta analogía, sin embarg...
NGC1850 is a large cluster of stars located a mere 166,000 light-years from Earth in our neighboring galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The colo... NGC1850 es un gran cúmulo de estrellas ubicado a tan solo 166,000 años-luz de la Tierra, en nuestra galaxia vecina la Gran Nube de Magallanes (LMC, po...
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Comet C/1999 S4 LINEAR is only one of many comets discovered with the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) telescope operating near Soccoro, ... El cometa C/1999 S4 LINEAR es solo uno de los muchos cometas descubiertos con el telescopio Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR), que opera c...