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In an extraordinary celestial coincidence, two "new stars" —scientifically known as novae —are currently visible to the naked ...
Over time, these stars became known as Wolf-Rayet stars (Charles Wolf was a French astronomer, and helium was first detected by the French scientist Georges Rayet and others), and astronomers came to ...
Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...
We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...
The night sky takes center stage as National Meteor Watch Day begins, and stargazers look up for a chance to witness nature’s ...
The globular cluster Messier 22 (M22) reaches its highest point in the sky around midnight local time, specifically for ...
Astronomy fans can zoom in practically forever into the stunning first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory ...
These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.
Scientists and engineers at CMU’s McWilliams Center for Cosmology and Astrophysics are building tools to aid astronomers ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...
From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...
From a James City County soccer field, Van Ruckman observed a distant asteroid and its moon, a feat that electrified the ...