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Opinion: America's 'big glass' dominance hangs on the fate of two powerful new telescopes
Los Angeles Times· 4 days agoMore than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions...
What Caused Our First Interstellar Visitor's Non-Gravitational Acceleration?
IFLScience· 4 days agoIn 2017, astronomers at the Pan-STARRS1 observatory looking for near-Earth asteroids spotted an object as it hurtled past our Sun at 38.3 kilometers per second (23.8 miles ...
Little Dumbbell Nebula may be hiding evidence of stellar cannibalism in new Hubble image | CNN
CNN.com· 4 days agoThe nebula, 3,400 light-years away in the Perseus constellation, is an expanding shell of gases...
Unistellar Odyssey Telescope Brings Powerful Simplicity to Backyard Astronomy
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 4 days agoRobotic telescopes of various shapes and sizes are hitting the market these days, each promising...
Seriously Oddball Facts About the World
MediaFeed via AOL· 14 hours agoNASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) 20. It's raining … glass? Even Captain Kirk might want to steer clear of this blue planet. In 2013...
Opinion: America's 'big glass' dominance hangs on the fate of two powerful new telescopes
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMore than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The ...
Enormous explosion in 'Cigar Galaxy' reveals rare type of star never seen beyond the Milky Way
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAn incredibly brief, ultrabright explosion has led astronomers to a newfound magnetic star outside...
Hubble telescope celebrates 34th anniversary with an iridescent Dumbbell Nebula (image)
SPACE.com· 5 days agoTo write that the Hubble Space Telescope is legendary would be an understatement. In the 34 years...
Hubble Has Accidentally Discovered Over a Thousand Asteroids
Universe Today· 6 days agoThe venerable Hubble Space Telescope is like a gift that keeps on giving. Thanks to an international...
Cosmic fountain is polluting intergalactic space with 50 million suns' worth of material
Space via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAstronomers have mapped a 20,000-light-year-long fountain of gas blasting from a nearby galaxy and...
