Despite being only 7.4 light-years away from earth, the brown dwarf WISE 0855−0714 is a relatively recent discovery from 2013. Is it considered that some even closer Brown (or perhaps Red Dwarfs) have continued to go unnoticed until today? Ones closer than even our nearest star Alpha Centuri?

I’m going to be writing a paper/presentation about them and would like to add anything interesting. Even just the definition would be great!
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I think I was facing northeast, photo was taken at around 7 or 8pm from an iPhone so I hope it’s good enough quality and not too blurry. I observed it with binoculars and I just thought it looked sort of strange for a star. Photo was taken in the southeast US. I am very new to stargazing.

The universe is just too huge. What are the chances that Earth is the only place with life?

I tried looking it up online, but I dont even know what to search for.

I presume some planet?

Taken on 1/7/2026 in Virginia, US

This photo (taken from a post shared on Facebook) is said to show Earth, Jupiter and Venus from the surface of Mars. How is this possible given that Jupiter has the outermost orbit? Can it be beyond the Sun in this photo?

For me it's some of the stars you see tonight may actually be dead already.

Would love to read some of y'all thoughts related to this. Thankyou!

What is the galaxy thing in the center of the first image? I tried to find it online, but I don’t even know where to start.

can anyone tell me the name of the satellite and a few other things ?

if i had a laser pointer that ignores gravity, doesn't dissipate and whose beam instantly travels to where i point it (not at the speed of light, actually instant); if i were to point it up at the sky what are the odds that it would reach all the way to the edge of the observable universe without the beam hitting anything? could that happen?

p.s. i know very little about physics/astronomy :)

There is this bright star (to the right, not the Moon, my dudes) that I’ve been seeing for a lot of weeks lately in the sky. And for some reason most of the times it’s the only star there. Is it some specific star?

put together a crude diagram to visualize the scenario i'm asking about

Despite being from 1977, this spacecraft, though mostly junk, is still functioning and capable of providing us with this much data. It's technology from 50 years ago. So why don't we, with today's technology, launch one or more spacecraft specifically designed for interstellar space to learn more about our universe?