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The view of the Paranal Observatory: Credit: ESO/Babak Tafreshi A new image captures the stunning view of the night sky over ESO’s Paranal Observatory, with a treasury of deep-sky objects. The image was taken by B...

The planetary nebula Fleming 1, as seen with ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Credit: ESO/H. Boffin The neat thing about planetary nebulae is that they are like snowflakes: no two are quite the same. Some look like poo...

HiCIAO near-infrared image of the protoplanetary disk around PDS 70. The circular mask hides the star itself, as well as a smaller internal disk structure. (Credit: NAOJ) Over the past couple of decades astronomers have ...

What has Curiosity been up to lately? The rover’s Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instruments makes up more than half the science payload on board MSL, and it is now searching for compounds of the element carbon â�...

xkcd presents a Saturn V schematic using the 1,000 most used English words (xkcd.com) Randall Munroe at xkcd did it again, this time with an illustration of a Saturn V described using only the 1,000 — er, ten hund...

This week’s Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at Next Big Future. Click here to read Carnival of Space #275 And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carniva...