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Category: Astronomy
Astronomy
A Mystery Gas Has Been Discovered Near The Center Of The Milky Way
An international team of researchers have discovered a dense, cold gas that’s been shot out from…
Architectures and Technologies for a Space Telescope for Solar System Science
We advocate for a mission concept study for a space telescope dedicated to solar system science…
Experiments Replicate High Densities In White Dwarf Stars
For the first time, researchers have found a way to describe conditions deep in the convection…
Hubble Catches a Ring of Stellar Wildfire
NGC 1614, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is an eccentrically shaped galaxy ablaze…
Betelgeuse’s Dimming Is Due To A Traumatic Outburst
Observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are showing that the unexpected dimming of the supergiant star…
ALMA Sees The Most Distant Milky Way Look-alike
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is…
Classifying Galaxies With Artificial Intelligence
Astronomers have applied artificial intelligence (AI) to ultra-wide field-of-view images of the distant Universe captured by…
NASA to Reexamine Nicknames for Cosmic Objects
Distant cosmic objects such as planets, galaxies, and nebulae are sometimes referred to by the scientific…
Hubble Observes Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 4907
The barred spiral galaxy known as NGC 4907 shows its starry face from 270 million light-years…