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Only four days each year are actually 24 hours long

As the Earth spins and wobbles on its axis and revolves elliptically around the Sun, each day differs from the last. "24 hours" isn'tContinue reading on Starts With A Bang! »

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Starwatch: Autumnal equinox in northern hemisphere, spring in the south

Precise moment of equinox in UK is 1.05am on Wednesday - but day and night will not be equal until Friday ...

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APOD: 2026 September 21 - Cocoon Nebula Wide Field

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 21 - Today's APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe ...

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Astronomers Confirm Youngest Known Exoplanet--a Jupiter-Sized World Still Forming 5,000 Times Younger Than Earth

Astronomers have confirmed Elias 2-24 b, a Jupiter-sized exoplanet less than 1 million years old that is still gathering material from its star's protoplanetary disc.

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Youngest new 'alien planet' ever discovered - and it's 5,000 times younger than Earth

Astronomers have made the recent discovery and say the new planet is a exoplanet which is forming in a cloud of debris around a young star and is less than one million years old.

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Hubble Captures NGC 4698, an Out of Sync Galaxy Spinning Two Ways at Once

Hubble's new frame of NGC 4698 arrives from 55 million light years out in Virgo, a spiral tucked into the nearest big cluster of more than a thousand galaxies bound by gravity. Brown dust lanes cut through the outer disk and young blue stars light .. ...

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APOD: 2026 September 20 - Analemma over the Callanish Stones

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Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade

Chariklo is only about 250 km across, but it has two rings, and they're changing.

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APOD: 2026 September 19 - A Zodiacal Night

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NASA-JAXA XRISM Mission Sees Pulsar Gathering Companion's 'Wind'

Using data from the Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory, astronomers have directly observed a giant star's outflow, called a ...

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