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Opinion: America's 'big glass' dominance hangs on the fate of two powerful new telescopes
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoEver since then, the United States has been at the forefront of “big glass.” In fact, our institutions, Carnegie Science and Caltech, still help run some of the largest telescopes for visible-light ...
Here's Why We Should Put a Gravitational Wave Observatory on the Moon
Universe Today· 7 hours agoScientists detected the first long-predicted gravitational wave in 2015, and since then, researchers...
Black holes are getting caught in “traffic jams”
Cosmos· 2 hours agoThis could help explain when and where black hole mergers occur. Led by researchers at Melbourne’s Monash University, the study is published in the...
Scientists find one of the oldest stars in the universe in a galaxy right next to ours
LiveScience· 14 hours agoScientists have identified one of the oldest known stars outside the Milky Way. The discovery,...
On this day in history, April 25, 1990, Hubble Space Telescope placed in orbit by Space Shuttle...
Fox News via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoThe Hubble Space Telescope, proclaimed by NASA to be the most significant advance in astronomy since...
‘The announcement we’ve found alien life could be just a couple of years away’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 11 hours ago“Generally, when I’m on a plane, if I tell somebody that I search for life on planets around other...
Rockets, robots and more at UH astronomy open house
KHON 2 Honolulu· 4 days agoCalling all space fanatics! It’s time to deep dive into orbit with the University of Hawaii’s Astronomy Open House.
Astronaut Rosemary Coogan on overcoming the temptation to ‘swim’ in microgravity
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoShe said: “I have always wanted to be an astronaut and I feel so incredibly lucky...
How many stars die in the Milky Way each year?
Astronomy Magazine· 10 hours agoThis pathway to stellar death is trod about once every two years in our galaxy. For stars more than eight times heavier than our Sun, death becomes...
Veteran taikonaut, 2 rookies launched to Chinese space station
CBS News· 8 hours agoThree Chinese taikonauts blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on...
