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New photos, including a striking technicolor timelapse, show off the newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it ...
The Vaonis Vespera II, priced at $1,590, redefines tabletop telescopes with its smart, automated design. Its 50mm aperture ...
Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not loop back around the sun. That's why astronomers around the world are using ...
For the first time, astronomers have witnessed the very first solid particles forming around a baby sun-like star, HOPS-315, over 1,300 light-years away. Using Nasa’s James Webb Telescope and ALMA in ...
The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.
Very massive stars (VMSs) have had a massive impact on the formation of our universe. However, there aren't very many of them ...
Star A had never been investigated because it does not contain a disk. My colleagues and I were curious about whether it had already formed a planet. And so, after four years of careful measurements ...
But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...
Large telescopes are custom-built and rare. There is no standard practice or model. Every time a large telescope is built, its designers must re-think the challenges, check every application, and ...
The double star system is called HD 135344 AB and it's about 440 light-years away from Earth. A and B are both young stars, ...
Armed with the world's largest digital camera, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will take night-sky images that revolutionize astronomy.
Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...