The Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud from the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory…
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CME impacts Earth sparking widespread aurora, G3 – Strong storm Watch in effect for April 16
A series of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) produced on April 13 have begun impacting Earth, with…
The JWST Examines an Enigmatic, Ringed Nebula
NGC 1514 is a planetary nebula about 1500 light years away. William Herschel discovered it in…
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By Laurence Tognetti, MSc April 15, 2025 How can we successfully collect and return samples from…
Supermassive black hole Ansky awakens with record-breaking X-ray flares
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An artist’s illustration of Haumea Science Photo Library/Alamy I find the outer reaches of our solar…
How to spot the 2025 Lyrids and Eta Aquarids meteor showers
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Astronomers Push Webb to its Limits to Visualize the Most Distant Galaxies Of All!
Since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began science operations, astronomers have observed galaxies that existed…
Andromeda’s satellite galaxies challenge the standard model
Contrary to expectations from the standard model of cosmology, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)…
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Our Sun, like all stars, is made mostly of hydrogen and helium. They are by far…