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A Feline in the Heavens: The Smiling Cat Nebula
A stellar nursery sounds like a placid place where baby stars go about their business undisturbed. But, of course, a stellar nursery is nothing like that. (Babies are noisy and cry a lot.) They’re...
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The Biggest Telescope in the World is Half Built
The European Southern Observatory continues to build the largest telescope in the world, the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). Construction of the telescope began in 2014 with flattening the top of a...
View ArticleIs This The First Exoplanet Trojan, or the Result of an Epic Collision...
It seems like every week, researchers are finding more and more interesting exoplanets. Many of them have analogs in our own solar system – hot Jupiter or Super Earth are commonly used as...
View ArticleOne of Neptune's Dark Spots Finally Seen From Earth
There’s no getting around it: our Solar System’s gas giants all have big, conspicuous spots on their faces. These include Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, Saturn’s Great White Spot, Uranus’ Great Dark Spot,...
View ArticleA Bizarre Pulsar Switches Between Two Brightness Modes. Astronomers Finally...
Pulsars are the lighthouses of the universe. These rotating dead stars shoot twin jets of radiation from their poles, usually with a predictable rhythm. But sometimes pulsars behave strangely, and one...
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A New Planet-Hunting Instrument Has Been Installed on the Very Large Telescope
Exoplanet studies have come a long way in a short time! To date, 5,523 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,117 systems, with another 9,867 candidates awaiting confirmation. With all these planets...
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The Brightest Object Ever Seen in the Universe
It’s an exciting time in astronomy today, where records are being broken and reset regularly. We are barely two months into 2024, and already new records have been set for the farthest black hole yet...
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Astronomers Image 62 Newly-Forming Planetary Systems
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile have now completed one of the largest surveys ever to hunt for planet-forming discs. They were able to find dozens of dusty regions around young...
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The ESO Releases the Most Detailed Infrared Map of our Galaxy Ever Made
Despite decades of large-scale optical surveys, there are still mysteries about the Milky Way galaxy that astronomers are eager to resolve. This is particularly true of its internal structure and the...
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An Earth-like Planet Around a Dead Sun Provides Some Reassurance About the...
In about five billion years, our Sun will exit its main sequence phase and transition to its red giant phase. At this point, the Sun will expand and consume the planets of the inner Solar System,...
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