The top dark sky parks in all 50 states with the clearest nights to enjoy mesmerizing meteor showers

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Map of the US at night lit up.
Map of the US at night lit up.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope reveals a secret star Hubble missed, maybe solving the mystery of a dying star's multi-layered nebula

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nebula in space with a pink bubble center and a textured orange ring surrounding it with wavy blue hazy lines and faint concentric arcs expanding out into space
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope captured the Ring Nebula in unprecedented detail with its mid-infrared instrument.

ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Barlow (UCL), N. Cox (ACRI-ST), R. Wesson (Cardiff University)

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted a question mark in deep space. It could be 2 galaxies colliding.

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giant orange question mark in the middle of galaxies and bright blue star-like lights in space
NASA, what is this?

NASA, ESA, CSA. Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

An audio simulation of the gentle twinkling of a star sounds much more menacing than you think

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Stars photographed from the nature reserve of the Sierra Mariola in Bocairent, Valencian Community, Spain, Europe.

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2 meteor showers will peak Monday and last into August. One could produce dazzling fireballs.

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A clear photo of the Delta Aquariids meteor shower over Mount St. Helens. The Milky Way, with its grey white clouds, lies in a vibrant streak against the indigo night sky. Streaks of bright white light criss cross the sky.
The Delta Aquariids meteor shower and Milky Way over Mount St. Helens, at Windy Ridge in Washington State with Mt. Hood, Oregon visible in the lower left corner.

25 photos of space that could change the way you see our universe and make you feel very small

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tarantula nebula cosmic dust cloud orange white web with stars
Webb captured the Tarantula Nebula star-forming region in this mosaic image stretching 340 light-years across.

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team

Astronomers spot a sneak peek of Earth's death — a star swallowing a planet whole — for the first time

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illustration of small orange planet touching giant yellow star with white and blue streaks of material shooting out
This artist's interpretation shows a star so bloated that it's engulfing a doomed planet.

K. Miller/R. Hurt (Caltech/IPAC

When, where, and how to see the rare alignment of 5 planets in the night sky this month

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Mars, Uranus, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury on a sky background
Top to bottom: Mars, Uranus, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury will align like this in late March. This image is not to scale. Images of the planets have been overlaid on the sky to show their order.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spots a rare star preparing to explode and die in a supernova

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bright star surrounded by layers of pink yellow red clouds billowing out in starry black space
A pre-supernova star, called a Wolf-Rayet star, in near-infrared and mid-infrared via the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team

NASA image may show first-ever 'rogue' supermassive black hole, leaving a trail of newborn stars in its wake

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black and white photo of space shows trail going away from bright white dot
A potential supermassive black hole (bottom left arrow) leaves a trail of stars (middle arrow) as it's flung from a galaxy (top arrow).

NASA/ESA/Pieter van Dokkum et al./Astrophysical Journal Letters 2023

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