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Here's our brand new infographic for this week's best space images. Feel free to share and re-post! © John Williams for Universe Today, 2013. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: Best Space Images of the Week Feed enha...

Last weekend (April 27, 2013), the Fermi and Swift spacecraft witnessed a "shockingly" bright burst of gamma rays from a dying star. Named GRB 130427A, it produced one of the longest lasting and brightest GRBs ever detec...

Stars like our Sun can last for a very long time (in human terms, anyway!) somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-12 billion years. Already over 4.6 billion years old, the Sun is entering middle age and will keep on happily...

Attitude and altitude are important factors for flying a spaceship. But How do you control the International Space Station, a ship the size of a US football field (or five hockey rinks -- a better reference for Canadians...

Here's a new image of Comet C/2012 S1 ISON, as seen on May 1, 2013 by Ernesto Guido and Nick Howes of the Remanzacco Observatory. They used the 2 meter La Palma Telescope. Their initial approximation of the tail length i...

This dramatic shot of the dark and shadowy Pipe Nebula has an Instagram-like feel to it. But astrophotographer Martin Campbell from France said on Flickr he has "no doubt that the pristine skies at 10,000 feet and the ab...