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 Artifacts found in an ancient astronomical observatory in Egypt

Archaeologists uncover 6th century astronomical observatory in Egypt

 Cuneiform tablets are displayed during an exhibition at the Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem, February 3, 2015.

'A king will die, a nation will fall': Dark omens revealed from 4,000-year-old Babylonian tablets

LEGO unveils bricks made from real meteorite dust in unique collaboration

By Yinon Ben Shushan
 An illustrative image of an asteroid passing Earth.

Giant asteroid the size of 770 lions to pass Earth Thursday, June 27 - NASA

 Ilan Ramon, official NASA portrait.

Astronaut Ilan Ramon’s space diary finds a home at Israel’s National Library

 Young, hot, earth-sized planet HD 63433d sits close to its star in the constellation Ursa Major, while two neighboring, mini-Neptune-sized planets identified in 2020 orbit farther out.

Earth-sized exoplanet discovered in ‘our solar backyard’ by international team

 The Running Chicken Nebula comprises several clouds, all of which we can see in this vast image from the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal site

Running Chicken Nebula makes dazzling appearance in starry night sky

 An image of galaxy NGC 3156, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

NASA's Hubble telescope spots 'dreamy' galaxy

 The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s.

NASA finds source of life on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa

  Exoplanet K2-18b.

NASA's Webb telescope finds exoplanet with potential signs of life

 The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Soyuz spacecraft with US astronaut, two Russian cosmonauts docks at ISS

By REUTERS
 An artistic illustration of a hot Jupiter planet.

Jupiter-like planet observed spiraling off 950 light years from Earth

 A supermoon hangs in the night sky.

Rare 'blue supermoon' rises over Israel, won't return until 2037

 The sun as seen by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft in extreme ultraviolet light in this mosaic of 25 individual images taken on March 7, 2023, by the high resolution telescope of the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument.

India sets September launch date for mission to study the sun

By REUTERS
A montage of Saturn and its moons as captured by the Voyager 1 probe

Saturn visible in Israel's night sky at its brightest

 The blue moon as seen in the sky, August 30, 2023

Rare 'blue supermoon' to rise this week, won't return until 2037

 The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, built for NASA and the European Space Agency, lifts off from pad 41 aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., February 9, 2020.

Sun-observing spacecraft sheds light on the solar wind's origin

By REUTERS
 This artist’s impression depicts a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH), surrounded by an accretion disc.

Scientists unveil secrets of star violently torn apart near black hole