The 245th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society is being held Jan. 12 to Jan. 16 and will feature remarkable findings ...

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This title is available on our Higher Education website. An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics is a comprehensive, well-organized and engaging text covering every major area of modern astrophysics, ...

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Physicists have proposed a solution to a long-standing puzzle surrounding the GD-1 stellar stream, one of the most ...

More than 40 new stars have been discovered - thanks to a telescopic magnification trick. It is believed to be the first time ...

These well-known classification systems are at the core of stellar astronomy. Later, Edwin Hubble's "tuning fork" ...

Nearly all elements except hydrogen and helium — including carbon, oxygen and iron — only exist because they were forged in ...

In 2025, the Rubin Observatory in Chile will start operations and survey the southern sky every four days with a 3.2 gigapixel camera.