Sure, the sun is great. It’s nice to not live in a frozen wasteland, after all. But the sun is pretty terrifying, too. It sends a dangerous stream of fast-moving […]
Author Archives: By Alex H. Kasprak, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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A Bright and Stormy Night
You might think Uranus looks boring compared to the swirling surface of Jupiter and the mighty rings of Saturn. You wouldn’t be alone! It has a hazy and dull bluish […]
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Clear Skies in Cygnus
When astronomers set out to use an observatory or telescope on the surface of our planet, they are always hoping for a clear sky. How else are they going to […]
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Tiny Grains of Dust From Way-Way-Outer Space!
Everything around us came from an ancient swirling disk of dusk. Our sun, our planet, and the planets of our solar system all formed from the remnants of this disk. […]