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The planet Neptune has a large dark spot "with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it," inveru observations using ...
Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...
Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...
For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the ...
Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...
Hints of the very first stars to light the Universe might be discovered in a faint radio signal feebly beaming from the dawn ...
The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its extraordinary ability to map the universe in ...
The first images from the telescope were released earlier this week, and it uses a 3,200-megapixel camera the size of a car.
The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.
UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan ...