Friday, October 14, 2022

The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe

10/14/2022

NEWS & FEATURES

The search for intelligent life in the universe
NASA

With roughly 100 billion galaxies hosting countless stars each, the universe seems like it should be teeming with life. But is it?

Mars is littered with thousands of pounds of trash from 50 years of robotic exploration
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Discarded pieces of landing gear, crashed spacecraft, and wear and tear have produced a lot of debris that is now scattered around the martian surface.

Tour the most extreme celestial objects in the universe
NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team

The cosmos has a knack for forming extreme — and weird — objects. Here are just a few.

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See fall's best Messier objects
Sergey Trudolyubov

Want to know what’s in the sky this season? Take in these 20 spectacular deep-sky sights in just one night.

Ask Astro: When will the Sun become a black dwarf?
RJHall, Chrkl/Wikimedia Commons

Black dwarfs are the very last stage of Sun-like stars. How long will it take our Sun to reach this milestone?

Your Guide to the 2024 Eclipse┬а

OBSERVING

The sky this week
David Wipf (Flickr)

Your daily digest of celestial events coming soon to a sky near you. Updated Friday morning at 9 A.M. Central.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Chain of galaxies┬а
Scott Rosen

Markarian’s Chain is one of the brightest gatherings of galaxies in the sky. All its members belong to the Virgo Cluster, although not all of the Chain lies in Virgo. Some lie in neighboring Coma Berenices.

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