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Dusty 'Cat's Paw Nebula' contains a type of molecule never seen in space — and it's one of the...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoScientists have detected a new, unusually large molecule never seen in space before. The 13-atom...
New observatory in Chile—the highest in the world—aims to reveal origins of planets, galaxies and...
Phys.org· 4 days agoHow do planets form? How do galaxies evolve? A unique astronomical observatory that researchers hope...
Meet The Highest Telescope In The World, Which Just Looked Up For The First Time
Forbes· 2 days agoJapan just switched on the world’s highest telescope. This week marks the “first light” for the...
Astro-phenomenon: WVU professor beams into National Academy of Sciences
The Charleston Gazette· 2 days agoMaura McLaughlin, an astronomer and physics professor at West Virginia University, has marked...
Astronomers close in on the mystery of the erupting Orion star system (video)
SPACE.com· 3 days agoThis type of explosive brightening was expected from old dying stars, but the stars of FU Ori are...
The highest observatory on Earth sits atop Chile's Andes Mountains — and it's finally open
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThe facility's altitude surpasses even the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, which is at an elevation...
Dark Sky Week coming up at McDonald Observatory
Odessa American· 5 days agoJoin McDonald Observatory May 7-11 for Dark Sky Week, a celebration of the famous night skies of Far West Texas. Event programming includes special...
Is There Life Beyond Nuclear Armageddon?
Forbes· 5 days agoA completely serendipitous chance encounter with a Mars-sized impactor some 4.5 billion years ago created our anomalously large moon which to this day...
Tidal disruption event ASASSN-19bt experiences unusual radio evolution, observations show
Phys.org· 5 days agoAn international team of astronomers has conducted detailed radio and X-ray observations of a tidal disruption event (TDE) designated ASASSN-19bt. Results of the observational campaign, presented ...
NASA Doubles Down, Advances 6 Innovative Tech Concepts to New Phase
NASA· 3 days agoOne of the ‘science fiction-like’ concepts — for a lunar railway system to provide payload transport on the Moon — is being developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.