All we know about the universe is in what is called "the observable universe," because there's much beyond what even the most powerful modern telescopes and data-retrieval systems can detect. And something out there is e...

French astrophotographer Thierry Legault had perfe...  ...n Tiangong-1 crossing the path of the sun. At Bad Astronomy , Phil Plait writes:In this picture, you can see t...  ...r away. Like, 500,000 times farther.Link -via Bad Astronomy

You ain't never seen Hollywood stars like this. UK art studio Dorothy mapped hundreds of films and movie stars into these two wonderful constellation maps, The Golden Age and The Modern Day Hollywood Star charts....

Image: NASA, ESA, C.R. Robert O'Dell, G.J....  ...that if you want to get people more excited about astronomy , name the stars after snacks (case in point). It...  ...st make you yearn for more confectionery, ... er, astronomy ? NPR's Bill Chapell has the scoop: Link

Image: ESA-Planck A four-year mission conducted by the European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft created the highest-resolution map yet of the entire cosmic microwave background radiation, the...

A 6th grade teacher handed out this study guide to her students. Redditor Dixichick13 corresponded with the teacher and determined that it was not a true or false quiz or a "find the incorrect statements" quiz. The teach...

At Randall Munroe's What If? blog, where he researches the oddest questions from readers, he tells us what would happen to a typical airplane if it were flown on other planets and the larger moons in the solar system. Fo...

Pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope introduce...  ...Read more about this mystery of deep space at Bad Astronomy . Link(Image credit: NASA/ESA)

It would take almost nine years to walk to the...  ...factoids are from Phil Plait's archived 2012 Bad Astronomy Facts. He started the feature, consisting of dail...  ...acts. He started the feature, consisting of daily astronomy facts in fewer than 140 characters, on January 4,...  ...on January 4, 2012.See the...

Babies got to eat to grow big, and a baby star is no exception. Astronomers studying a young star noticed that it is being fed a steady stream of gas from nearby planets: As...