The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
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Hubble Telescope captures gorgeous new view of Milky Way's star-packed galactic neighbor (photo)
Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling stars. The image features a small region of the SMC near the center of NGC ...
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This Week in Astronomy with Dave Eicher: The Winter Hexagon
In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Dave Eicher invites you to head out and use just your eyes to make a giant figure ...
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JWST spots the earliest sign yet of a distant galaxy reshaping its cosmic environs
GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the era of cosmic reionization at 330 million years after the Big Bang.
How astronomers cope with all those Starlink satellites.
SpaceX has launched over 7,000 low earth satellites that have disrupted astronomical observations. Another 70,000 LEO ...