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Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1 space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...
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Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond ... star’s life captured in the new image 160,000 years to reach Earth. WOH G64 was likely 25 to 40 times the mass of the sun ...
The Day the Earth Smiled is a composite photograph taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini on July 19, 2013. During an eclipse of the Sun, the spacecraft turned to image Saturn and most of its visible ring system, as well as Earth and the Moon as distant pale dots.
Image refaite directement à partir du fichier source NASA AS17-148-22727. 07:42, 17 October 2010: 3,000 × 3,002 (6.21 MB) Huntster: Reverted to version as of 02:25, 31 July 2005; new image is (in my opinion) technically inferior to the July 2005 image, and is not the featured picture that was voted upon. Upload new image to another filename ...
The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names.
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