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It is difficult to hide one galaxy far behind another. The closer galaxy's gravity will act like a huge lens, pulling images of the background galaxy around both sides. This is just the case observed in the above...

Watch people discover that gasoline and fire don't mix like peanut butter and jelly. These backyard pyromaniacs learned valuable lessons about physics, safety, and why eyebrows are actually pretty important for facial...

Our solar system's ruling giant planet Jupiter and 3 of its 4 large Galilean moons are captured in this single Hubble snapshot from January 24. Crossing in front of Jupiter's banded cloud tops Europa, Callisto, and Io...

A fairly long video at 8 minutes, but a very cool history and background on how the internet was formed. Most of us geeks now ARPAnet, etc... , however this really goes into some high level detail.

A time lapse video of the Space Shuttle Endeavour and its final ride into history.

Stars, like people, do not always go gentle into that good night. The above Keyhole Nebula results from dying star Eta Carinae's violently casting off dust and gas during its final centuries. Eta Carinae is many...

Watch as huleeb creates the most unexpectedly soothing blue void that somehow makes perfect sense. This mesmerizing visual experiment proves that sometimes the best entertainment is absolutely nothing happening in the...

At first, the bright stars of the large asterism known as the (northern) Winter Hexagon might be hard to pick out in this gorgeous deep sky mosaic from December 2002. But placing your cursor over the picture will...

What are those strange blue objects? Many are images of a single, unusual, beaded, blue, ring-like galaxy which just happens to line-up behind a giant cluster of galaxies. Cluster galaxies here appear yellow and --...

We live in the era of humanity when most of our Universe is being mapped. To help understand these maps, astronomers computationally estimate the appearance of several possible candidate universes, to which maps of...