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13) at the 245th American Astronomical ... to find out, Leiner and her colleagues attained and analyzed fresh Hubble Space Telescope observations of one of the brightest blue lurker stars in ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye. The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an "arrow"—a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy—shot ...

Not too far away from where this is being written is one of Uncle Sam’s NATO outposts, a satellite earth station for their comms system ... dome for his radio telescope experiments.

For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered” planets around a nearby star, only to retract the claims. But the latest find is for ... with the International Astronomical Union to solicit ...

Before astronomy students at Columbia University can learn about about the sun, moon, and stars, they’ll have to take a refresher on … the “genocide” at Gaza? That’s the message from an undergraduate ...

This National Astronomy Week, we celebrate all their fascinating work in space research. Our Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy (CEA) is a hub for researchers looking into the formation and evolution ...

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CAPE TOWN - Imagine a telescope so powerful it can unlock secrets of the universe invisible to the naked eye or standard instruments.

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