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7 potential 'alien megastructures' spotted in our galaxy are not what they seem
LiveScience· 4 days agoA team of astronomers combed through a collection of odd stars that are candidates for Dyson spheres — artificial constructs designed by aliens to leech energy from stars.
Sharp-eyed Telescope Tracks Satellites During Daylight
IEEE Spectrum· 4 days agoThe technique employs a custom-built telescope assembled from commercially available components. In...
James Webb telescope discovers most distant supernova ever seen
Live Science via Yahoo News· 20 hours agoThe James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a supernova dating to just 1.8 billion years after the...
Village microbrewery wins battle with drinks giant over its name
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 days agoSteve White, a retired police officer and keen amateur astronomer, set up Dark Sky Brewery two years...
'Absolutely gutted': How a jammed door is locking astronomers out of the X-ray universe
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoXRISM could change the way we see the X-ray universe, but a jammed door presents a mighty challenge....
JWST detects aftermath of “cataclysmic” asteroid collision
Cosmos· 2 days agoAstronomers have identified the aftermath of a massive collision between giant asteroids in the Beta Pictoris star system using new data from the James Webb Space Telescope ...
How the Webb and Gaia missions bring a new perspective on galaxy formation
Ars Technica· 4 days agoIn a feat of galactic archeology, astronomers are using ever more detailed information to trace the...
An amateur astronomer had galaxies named after him. Here’s how
Interesting Engineering· 6 days agoInterestingly, Donatiello believes it may be hard for other amateur astronomers to have galaxies...
The Unistellar eVscope 2 is $1160 off ahead of Prime Day
SPACE.com· 5 hours agoThe Unistellar eVscope 2 is a seriously impressive smart telescope and now it's over $1160 off ahead...
Polarized light yields fresh insight into mysterious fast radio bursts
Ars Technica· 3 days agoAstronomers have been puzzling over the origins of mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) since the...