Galaxies exchange matter with their external environment thanks to galactic winds. For the first time, the MUSE instrument from the Very Large Telescope has mapped the galactic wind that drives these exchanges between galaxies and nebulae. This discovery led to … Read More
With only one star in the sky, our Solar System appears to be an outlier. Most stars in the Milky Way galaxy have at least one gravitationally bound stellar companion, implying that two-star worlds such as Tatooine are not uncommon. … Read More
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission captured its first images of its destination planet Mercury as it swooped past in a close gravity assist flyby. The closest approach occurred on October 1, 2021, at 23:34 UTC, at an altitude of 199 km … Read More
A comet so massive that it was initially misidentified as a dwarf planet is on its way in from the outer Solar System. There’s no need to be concerned; C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), as the comet is known, will pass just … Read More
A team of researchers has accidentally found two galaxies that were hidden from view sitting at the edge of space and time. Yoshinobu Fudamoto, an astronomer at the Research Institute for Science and Engineering at Waseda University, Japan, and the … Read More
Prepare for your next space expedition with intergalactic-style t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies. Everyone in the family can feel a part of the space crew with our intergalactic-themed t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies. In our space clothing catalogue you can find … Read More