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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every clear night for the past three weeks, Bob Stevens has pointed his home telescope at the same two stars in hopes of witnessing one of…
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every clear night for the past three weeks, Bob Stevens has pointed his home telescope at the same two stars in hopes of witnessing one of…
A "super Jupiter" has been spotted around a neighboring star by the Webb Space Telescope — and it has a super orbit. Related video above: First image from Japanese lunar…
Our ambitions for space exploration have boldly taken humans to the Moon, rovers to Mars and spacecraft to the outer reaches of the Solar System. But can humans or spacecraft…
Comparison of high-resolution spectra of J 0206+4941 and a moderately r-enhanced (rI) star, HD 124897 ([Eu/Fe] = +0.45, with similar stellar parameters. Credit: Xie et al., 2024 Using the Gran…
Anyone who stares into the summer night sky for even a short time is likely to notice a few "shooting stars" darting across the sky. The best meteor display of…
Zoom in / From left to right, zooming in from the globular cluster to the location of its black hole.ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Häberle Supermassive black holes appear to reside…
Astronomer David Kipping of Cool Worlds fame urged other astronomers to use their telescope time to observe a particularly unusual star that appears to have a very strange or "seemingly…
A star that appeared in the sky 840 years ago and then disappeared has recently shown new activity, providing astronomers with valuable insight into stellar phenomena. This "visiting star," which…
From mesmerizing 'mythical monsters' to stunning distant constellations, the 2024 Astronomy Photographer of the Year nominees showcase the magnificent beauty in the sky around us. Here are this year's stunning…
A fast-spinning neutron star that beams radiation across the universe like a cosmic beacon has been discovered by US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Remote Sensing Division intern Amaris McCarver and…