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JWST Spots Asteroid Collision In Another Star System
IFLScience· 1 day agoTwenty years ago, astronomers used the Spitzer telescope to study Beta Pictoris, a star 63 light-years away. Researchers back then saw a significant...
Sharp-eyed Telescope Tracks Satellites During Daylight
IEEE Spectrum· 1 day agoThe technique employs a custom-built telescope assembled from commercially available components. In...
Australia's 'Space Gandalf' astronomer dies aged 62
BBC via Yahoo News· 4 days agoGreg Quicke used his self-taught astronomy knowledge to become a popular figure on TV [BBC] An Australian astronomer who appeared on the BBC's Stargazing...
Amateur astronomers confirm 'warm Jupiter' exoplanet
Astronomy Magazine· 4 days agoNow a network of citizen scientists has confirmed one of those exoplanets, a “warm Jupiter” sitting about 300 light-years away, that represents an...
A strange intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled
The Raw Story· 5 days agoWhen astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of...
Greg Quicke: Australia's 'Space Gandalf' astronomer dies aged 62
BBC News· 5 days agoAn Australian astronomer who appeared on the BBC's Stargazing Live alongside Professor Brian Cox,...
How the Webb and Gaia missions bring a new perspective on galaxy formation
Ars Technica· 1 day agoIn a feat of galactic archeology, astronomers are using ever more detailed information to trace the...
Phoenix exoplanet’s puffy atmosphere survives red giant star
EarthSky· 2 days agoAstronomers have discovered a new “hot Neptune” exoplanet, using the TESS space telescope and W.M....
Backyard astronomer captures amazing solar flare images
Boing Boing· 6 days agoAn amateur astronomer using a specially modified telescope captured this incredible footage of a...
Physicist's gravity revelation may finish 'endless search' for dark matter
Newsweek· 4 hours agoDark matter is a hypothetical form of matter, thought to account for 80 percent of the matter in the...