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World's largest digital camera observes cosmos, capturing detailed images of galaxies, asteroids, and stars changing ...
Celebrate the Fourth with the Fireworks Galaxy, then check out the Demon Star Algol and the Full Buck Moon in the sky this ...
Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...
Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.
(CN) — While all stars go out in a bang, some go out with two. For the first time, astronomers have recorded visual evidence ...
Pictures of a distant supernova remnant show two concentric rings, providing clear evidence that exploding white dwarf stars ...
A cataclysmic variable star isn’t technically a single object. Instead, it’s a compact binary system composed of a white ...
In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" —scientifically known as novae —are currently visible to the naked ...
Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...
Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...