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'Once-in-a-lifetime event': Explosion in space to look like new star, NASA says
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoAstronomers dubbed the stars' system the “Blaze Star,” but it's also known as T Coronae Borealis...and giant make up a binary system, which is when "two stars orbit around ...
Einstein Telescope Launches New Era In Astronomy
PhotonicsOnline· 2 days agoIt’s still just a plan, but a new telescope could soon be measuring gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are something like the sound waves of the universe. The future ...
A Radio Telescope Captured the Noise Humanity Leaks Into Space
Inverse· 3 days agoA radio telescope on its way to the Moon captured a “selfie” of our planet’s radio waves, updating a...
What Was The Wow! Signal And Why Is It So Famous?
IFLScience· 6 days agoWhen astronomer Jerry Ehman noticed something unusual in the printout from Ohio State University’s radio telescope, his response became the most famous ...
JWST Spots Asteroid Collision In Another Star System
IFLScience· 3 days agoTwenty years ago, astronomers used the Spitzer telescope to study Beta Pictoris, a star 63 light-years away. Researchers back then saw a significant...
Phoenix exoplanet’s puffy atmosphere survives red giant star
EarthSky· 5 days agoAstronomers have discovered a new “hot Neptune” exoplanet, using the TESS space telescope and W.M....
Digital Cameras Revolutionized Astronomy. Then They Found Their Way into Your Pocket
Scientific American· 7 days agoIt’s true that the very best pictures still require large observatories on the ground or in space,...
'Absolutely gutted': How a jammed door is locking astronomers out of the X-ray universe
SPACE.com· 2 days agoJust outside Hiroya Yamaguchi's office is a blackboard crowded with exploded stars, spaceship schematics and spectral lines. Right now, Yamaguchi, an associate professor at Japan's Institute ...
Private Odysseus moon lander reveals which Earth 'technosignatures' aliens might see
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoBy looking at Earth as an exoplanet, astronomers hope to search for similar fingerprints coming from...
James Webb Space Telescope spots asteroid collision in neighboring star system
SPACE.com· 3 days agoThe James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has observed evidence pointing to asteroids colliding in a...