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A cloud of energetic gas lit up by a collision of galaxies spans nearly 20 million light-years, leading astronomers to ...
New near-infrared observations by the James Webb Space Telescope highlight a tightly packed group of stars at the peculiar ...
ESA’s new Flyeye telescope is set to transform asteroid detection, spotting potentially hazardous space rocks faster than ...
Moved to Boston, where he took a job appraising buildings for an insurance company. Became so fascinated with the buildings’ designs that he decided he would become an architect. Enrolled at the ...
We present faint galaxy counts from deep VRI images obtained with the Keck Telescope. These images reach R similar to 27 in median seeing FWHM similar to 0 ''.5-0 ''.6, and we detect a integrated ...
A team of scientists is developing a "quantum-sensitive" device that could capture direct images of Earth-like exoplanets — something astronomers tend to consider so difficult it's nearly ...
The new TDE, dubbed AT2024tvd, was detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility, an optical camera mounted on a telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, and confirmed by observations with ...
There are several examples of Optical SETI (OSETI) or LaserSETI, including the collaborative effort launched by Breakthrough Listen and the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System ...