Hey fellow Stargate fans! I’ve been thinking about all the times our favorite characters used tricks to outsmart their enemies. Whether it’s SG-1 pulling off a clever distraction or McKay using his genius to come up with a plan on the fly, it’s always so exciting to see how they navigate tricky situations. What are some of your favorite trickery…Read More

Young Moon and Sister StarsSunlit arms of a crescent moon seem to embrace the faint lunar night side in this dramatic celestial scene from planet Earth. The single telephoto exposure tracking the sky was captured on the night of April 19, when a two day old Moon was near perigee in its elliptical orbit. On that date, the young Moon was also close…Read More

Large Scale Structure of the UniverseThis is a map of the universe. The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, has finished its five-year survey. It observed more than 47 million galaxies and quasars and created a 3D map centered on the Earth. Today’s featured image shows a thin slice of these data:…Read More

Earthset with an iPhoneWhat does it mean for the Earth to set? Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman gave us another spectacular view of Earth from their historic flyby of the Moon. Commander Wiseman’s video, taken with an iPhone at 8x zoom, shows our entire planet gradually blocked from view by the Moon. On the Earth, the 24-hour planetary rotation…Read More

Three Sky Arches over Snowy AlpsWhy are there three arches across the sky instead of two? Last month, after being dropped off by a helicopter at a high mountain peak in the Alps near the Swiss Italian border, an adventurous astrophotographer expected two arches of our Milky Way galaxy to be visible during the night. These were the inner arch…Read More