Perseids meteor shower 2015 will be a very good show

The Perseids are from the debris shed by the comet Swift-Tuttle, which orbits the Sun once every 130 years

So, that was pretty cool...

There is nothing material to be gained by exploring Pluto. There is no strategic significance to the outer solar system, no natural resources worth claiming so far away. We sent out New Horizons purely and simply because we wanted to better understand our universe. And now we do.

Jupiter may have pushed a series of ‘super Earths’ into the sun, new research suggests


NASA probe set to arrive at Pluto this week to deposit the ashes of the (dwarf) planet’s discoverer

When Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in 1930 he could never have imagined that the icy world would one day be his final resting place

Winter Solstice 2014: Why the Sun will stand still today

When the north pole of the Earth’s axis is tipped as far from the Sun as it can be, that’s the moment of the winter solstice

A planet’s birth revealed in amazing image from world’s most powerful telescope

In a new image from ALMA (the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array), we see the disk left behind after a star birth in stunning new clarity.

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