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How weird is the Milky Way?
By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery ...
We are entering a new era of cosmic exploration. The new Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile will transform astronomy with its ...
The Vera Rubin telescope, which is set to open its eyes to the sky later this month, has a 26-foot-wide (8.4 meters) mirror, ...
The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...
These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...
More than a decade in the making, the Vera Rubin Observatory finally released its first image as its begins its ...
Astronomers are puzzled by a strong burst of radio waves traced back to a NASA satellite that had been inactive since the ...
Last year, astronomers detected a powerful burst of radio waves from within our galaxy. Researchers now say it came from NASA ...
A powerful and mysterious blast of radio waves that astronomers believed was a fast radio burst (FRB) from far beyond the ...
Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...
Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...
First thought to have originated from a distant cosmic object, the short and intense signal was actually coming from much ...