The waning Moon passes through Cancer, sharing the constellation with both Mars and the Beehive Cluster (M44).

Obscured by Clouds. The rough and ready blog of a cloud benighted biologist and amateur astronomer. Astroblog will cover my interests in astronomy, biology and Life, the Universe and Everything.

In the early days of the universe, our home looked very different from how it does today. Back then, the region in our universe that would eventually become our Milky Way neighborhood was a collection...

The ringed planet is now at its best for the year, reaching opposition in the constellation Cetus and shining all night.

Starlink is launching a new beta path for ordinary property owners and local operators to turn a single Starlink kit into a small shared-access business for passive income. Under the Starlink for Comm...

Huang Dandan, taken from Shennongjia, Hubei, China The gegenschein, a faint glow of sunlight scattered back toward Earth by dust grains in the inner solar system, sits in Aquarius at the point directl...

The small saturnian moon Dione passes in front of the ringed planet, bringing its tiny shadow along for the journey.

A 155-year-old typo made an 1848 train delay in England look like the earliest case of space weather disrupting technology. New research sets the record straight.

New observations of 21 extreme debris disks suggest the dust comes from violent impacts between planet-building bodies, and could even flag star systems in the midst of a planetary shake-up.

Falcon Heavy launched its first NRO mission while SpaceX landed four boosters in one day.

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