Astrophotographer captures comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS growing an anti-tail (photos) (Image Credit: Space.com) Miguel Claro is a professional photographer, author and science communicator based in Lisbon, Portugal, who creates spectacular images of the night sky. As a European Southern Observatory Photo Ambassador and member of The World At Night and the official astrophotographer of the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve, he specializes in astronomical “Skyscapes” […]

NASA Solar Sail Spacecraft Damaged, Spinning Through Space (Image Credit: futurism-com) Uh oh. Rough and Tumble NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3), a dazzling spacecraft designed to make use of the tiny amounts of radiation pressure exerted by sunlight for propulsion, is still spinning through space uncontrollably. In an update last week, the space […]

Astronomers Found Something Cold and Wet Near Uranus (Image Credit: Gizmodo-com) The Uranian moon Miranda may contain a liquid water ocean, according to a team of researchers that recently mapped the satellite’s surface and modeled tidal stress on it. The team published its study earlier this month in The Planetary Science Journal, suggesting the “plausible […]