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Astronomy
TESS Enables A Breakthrough Study Of Perplexing Stellar Pulsations
Astronomers have detected elusive pulsation patterns in dozens of young, rapidly rotating stars thanks to data…
New AI Technique Detects And Classifies Galaxies In Astronomy Image Data
Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a powerful new computer program called Morpheus that can…
Star Survives Close Call With A Black Hole
Astronomers may have discovered a new kind of survival story: a star that had a brush…
Hubble Views a Galaxy Burning Bright
In the depths of the night sky lies a barred spiral galaxy called NGC 3583, imaged…
ESO Instrument Finds The Closest Black Hole To Earth
A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has discovered a…
NASA to Demonstrate First-of-its-Kind In-Space Manufacturing Technique for Telescope Mirrors
Large telescopes that could be used for detecting and analyzing Earth-like planets in orbit around other…
Astronomers Capture Rare Images Of Planet-forming Disks Around Stars
An international team of astronomers has captured fifteen images of the inner rims of planet-forming disks…
Could Dark Matter Be Hiding in Existing Data?
Dark matter has so far defied every type of detector designed to find it. Because of…
Hubble Spots Stretching Spiral Galaxy NGC 4100
This sparkling spiral galaxy looks almost stretched across the sky in this new image from the…