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The Stargazer

A cosmic storyteller who looks up from the Andaman coast and explains the universe with wonder, fun, and real science. Makes space exciting for kids and curious adults alike — from meteor showers over Khao Lak to the rings of Saturn.

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Articles by The Stargazer

The Planet That Outlived Its Sun's Funeral: Hubble's 27-Year-Old Data Reveals a World Born From a Dead Star's Ashes

The Planet That Outlived Its Sun's Funeral: Hubble's 27-Year-Old Data Reveals a World Born From a Dead Star's Ashes

A doctoral student opened 27-year-old Hubble data, matched 100 mystery fingerprints to niobium — an element never seen i...

The Phoenix Planet: Astronomers Just Found a World Born From a Dead Star's Ashes

The Phoenix Planet: Astronomers Just Found a World Born From a Dead Star's Ashes

A gas giant orbiting the white dwarf HS 0209+0832, 250 light-years away in Cetus, appears to be the first planet ever fo...

The Universe's Fastest Flash Came From a Galaxy Nobody Expected: Webb Just Cracked the Case

The Universe's Fastest Flash Came From a Galaxy Nobody Expected: Webb Just Cracked the Case

A millisecond flash from 3 billion years after the Big Bang just set the record as the farthest fast radio burst ever tr...

A Billion Tonnes of Ice Just Won the Nobel Prize: Meet IceCube, the Telescope That Catches Ghost Particles

A Billion Tonnes of Ice Just Won the Nobel Prize: Meet IceCube, the Telescope That Catches Ghost Particles

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics went to Francis Halzen and IceCube — a cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice, buried 2.5 kilo...

The Dragon Wakes at Dusk: Why Tonight's Draconid Meteor Shower Is the One You Watch Before Bedtime

The Dragon Wakes at Dusk: Why Tonight's Draconid Meteor Shower Is the One You Watch Before Bedtime

The Draconid meteor shower peaks tonight, October 8–9, 2026 — and unlike most showers, its radiant is highest at nightfa...

Meet Elias 2-24 b: The Youngest Planet Ever Found Is Still Being Born

Meet Elias 2-24 b: The Youngest Planet Ever Found Is Still Being Born

Astronomers have confirmed Elias 2-24 b, the youngest planet ever found — a Jupiter-sized world less than one million ye...

Saturn Just Grew a New Ten-Sided Storm — And You Can Watch the Planet It's On This Week

Saturn Just Grew a New Ten-Sided Storm — And You Can Watch the Planet It's On This Week

Saturn is at its closest and brightest of 2026 — and Hubble has just confirmed a brand-new ten-sided cloud pattern formi...

The Wrong Rock Was the Right One: Perseverance Finds Three Ancient Water Systems on Mars

The Wrong Rock Was the Right One: Perseverance Finds Three Ancient Water Systems on Mars

NASA's Perseverance rover found the opposite of what it expected at Jezero Crater — volcanic stone instead of lake sedim...

Saturn Just Grew a New Shape: Hubble Catches a Ten-Sided Storm Being Born

Saturn Just Grew a New Shape: Hubble Catches a Ten-Sided Storm Being Born

For the first time, astronomers are watching a giant polygon form on a planet in real time — a ten-sided wave of wind ri...

The Moon That Isn't Sure It's a Moon: Astronomers Find the First Strong Evidence for a World With No Name

The Moon That Isn't Sure It's a Moon: Astronomers Find the First Strong Evidence for a World With No Name

Using the Very Large Telescope in Chile, a team led by PhD student Kevin Hoy has found strong evidence for a Jupiter-mas...

Fireflies on the Moon: Hubble and Webb Just Found 27 Tiny Worlds That Remember Everything

Fireflies on the Moon: Hubble and Webb Just Found 27 Tiny Worlds That Remember Everything

For the first time, Hubble and Webb joined forces to find 27 tiny icy worlds beyond Neptune — one just 5 km wide and as...

A Million Miles From Home: NASA's Roman Telescope Is Racing to Build a New Atlas of the Universe

A Million Miles From Home: NASA's Roman Telescope Is Racing to Build a New Atlas of the Universe

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launched August 30, 2026 and is now cruising a million miles to L2 — carrying a...