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Streams of gas surrounding a young star are being guzzled up by what is thought to be a giant planet in the making. An animation has been created using imagery captured by the European Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope.

In June 2010, astronomers saw the eruption of light from a star as it was shredded by a supermassive black hole. This happened 2.7 billion light years away in a distant galaxy!

Discovery Establishes New Class of Planetary Systems

Using data from NASA's Kepler Mission, SDSU astronomers announced the discovery of two new transiting "circumbinary" planet systems -- planets that orbit two stars.

NASA's Dawn probe, now orbiting Vesta in the asteroid belt, has found some surprising things on the giant asteroid--things that have prompted one researcher to declare Vesta "the smallest terrestrial planet."

A combination of:
~ The American Museum of Natural History - The Known Universe
~ Hans Zimmer - Time (We Plants Are Happy Plants Remix)

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured imagery of a Red Planet dust devil on March 14, 2012. Different from a tornado, this phenomena sometimes occurs on clear days when the heated surface interacts with pockets of cool air above it.

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Animation of the interstellar interaction with our Sun - one of billions of stars that orbits around the galaxy. As we zoom in through the galaxy we can see our heliosphere; then if we travel along with the interstellar material, we can see how only a very rare few are directed along precisely the right path to make the 30 year, 15 billion mile journey and enter IBEX's low energy sensor and be detected.

Black hole extravaganza in 1080p. From ESOcast. Not long ago, watching something being ripped apart as it falls towards a giant black hole would be science fiction. This is now reality.