Hey fellow Stargate fans! I’ve been rewatching some episodes, and I can’t help but wonder about the different theories surrounding the Stargates themselves. Do you think there are more undiscovered gates out there waiting to be found? Or maybe the origins of the Stargates hold some deeper secrets we have yet to uncover? I’d love to hear your…Read More

Hubble’s Andromeda Galaxy MosaicThe largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble Space Telescope image data is a panoramic view of our neighboring spiral Andromeda Galaxy. With 600 overlapping frames assembled from observations made from July 2010 to December 2022, the full Hubble Andromeda Galaxy mosaic spans almost six full moons across planet…Read More

Messier 87rmous elliptical galaxy Messier 87 is about 50 million light-years away. Also known as NGC 4486, the giant galaxy holds trillions of stars compared to the mere billions of stars in our large spiral Milky Way. M87 reigns as the large central elliptical galaxy in the Virgo galaxy cluster. An energetic jet from the giant galaxy’s core is…Read More

HH 30: A Star System with Planets Now FormingHow do stars and planets form? New clues have been found in the protoplanetary system Herbig-Haro 30 by the James Webb Space Telescope in concert with Hubble and the Earth-bound ALMA. The observations show, among other things, that large dust grains are more concentrated into a central disk where they…Read More

Thor’s Helmet versus the SeagullSeen as a seagull and a duck, these nebulae are not the only cosmic clouds to evoke images of flight. But both are winging their way across this broad celestial landscape, spanning almost 7 degrees across planet Earth’s night sky toward the constellation of the Big Dog (Canis Major). The expansive Seagull (top…Read More