NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is still more than a year from launching, but the Gemini…
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Astronomy
Revealing The Secret of Lithium-rich Stars By Monitoring Their Heartbeats
Lithium is an ancient element that is almost as old as the universe itself. As one…
Hubble Watches Exploding Star Fade Into Oblivion
When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does…
Hubble View Of Spiral Galaxy NGC 5643
This stunning image by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features the spiral galaxy NGC 5643 in…
Galaxies Trapped In The Web Of A Supermassive Black Hole
With the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around…
A Stellar Explosion In Earth’s Proximity
When the brightness of the star Betelgeuse dropped dramatically a few months ago, some observers suspected…
Astronomers Find The First Galaxy Whose Ultraviolet Luminosity Is Comparable To That Of A Quasar
It was found using observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), at the Roque de…
CHEOPS Data Describes One Of The Most Extreme Planets In The Universe
Eight months after the space telescope CHEOPS started its journey into space, the first scientific publication…
How Disk Galaxies Evolve Smoothly
Computer simulations are showing astrophysicists how massive clumps of gas within galaxies scatter some stars from…
Behold The Helix Nebula As Seen By Four Telescopic Eyes
When a star like the Sun runs out of fuel, it expands and its outer layers…