Santa Monica College Planetarium offers spring sky shows throughout March 2024 with live presentations on Friday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Tickets $7-$10.

A massive star roughly 2.5 million light-years away in the Andromeda Galaxy has quietly disappeared, and the best explanation is that it collapsed directly into a black hole without producing a ...

All shows are presented in the SMC Planetarium, located in room MSB 126 of the Mathematics + Science Building on the SMC Main Campus at 1900 Pico Boulevard. Ample and conveniently located free parking ...

Now the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken a new look at PMR-1 with both its Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and its ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar system.

This is the “Exposed Cranium” nebula, also known as Nebula PMR 1. Located some 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Vela, it’s a massive, moribund star coming to the end of its fuel-burning ...

Two heads are better than one in the latest images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which reveal new detail in a mysterious, little-studied nebula surrounding a dying star. Nebula PMR 1 is a ...

Two aging stars in the binary system AFGL 4106 sculpt a glowing, egg-shaped nebula as they approach the end of their lives.

Nebula Next made its CES debut on January 6, pulling the wraps off the Nebula Next 01 Concept, the company’s first public look at where it wants to take high-performance electric vehicles. For Nebula ...

There have been plenty of attempts to resolve the "Hubble Tension" in cosmology. This feature describes how one of the most important variables in cosmology, the expansion of the universe, takes on ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured a dramatic and stunning view of a nebula with a dying star, according to the space agency. The image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, according to a ...