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Unveiling a map of 1.8 billion stars in the Milky Way
The European Space Agency has released a dataset collected by the Gaia Space Observatory, showing many characteristics of large numbers of stars.
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NASA releases recording of black hole 'screaming'
The black hole at the center of the Perseus sounding galaxy cluster created ripples in the hot gas of the molecular cloud around it, thereby creating
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Greater Big Bend - The World's Largest Dark Sky Reserve
The Greater Big Bend Conservation Area on the US-Mexico border with an area of 40,000 square kilometers was created with the goal of preventing light pollution from…
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Radio telescope 30 times the diameter of Earth
China will launch an observatory orbiting the Moon to create a radio telescope with a diameter of 400,000 km.
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The observatory caught the signal of 97 newly born 'Solar System'
VLA and ALMA, humanity's two heavy-duty radio astronomical observatories, have collected spectacular data sets of 97 fledgling stars with protoplanetary disks.
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The observatory captured the 'zombie' eating the planet: is this the future of Earth?
For the first time, scientists have captured unequivocal evidence of a white dwarf star ripping and swallowing parts of its own planet.
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The observatory captured the 'purple death god' that the human eye could not see
The Chandra X-ray observatory and numerous observatories around the Earth have just captured breathtaking images of cosmic grim reapers tearing through the sky in magica…
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Photo of the 'flame nebula' more than 1,300 light-years away
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning update of the nebula NGC 2024 in the constellation Orion.
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The surprising truth about the image of 'ghost butterfly' flying through space was captured by the observatory
A spectacular image of a ghostly butterfly made of light has just been released by an observatory located in Chile, dubbed the Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula.
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Johannes Hevelius - First person to map the Moon
German astronomer Johannes Hevelius used a microscope to make the first detailed map of Earth's natural satellite.
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The 3.2 billion pixel camera in Chile is about to observe the universe
The world's largest digital camera LSST in Chile will help scientists study galaxies, asteroids and mysterious cosmic phenomena.
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What will America's space science look like in the next 10 years?
The latest survey of American astronomy and astrophysics from 2022 to 2032 recommended that NASA create a new program to develop several large telescopes.
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NASA discovered the first planet outside the galaxy
Scientists have detected signs of a transiting planet outside the Milky Way, and this could be the first planet ever discovered outside our galaxy.
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Proposal to build a space telescope $ 11 billion
Astronomers propose to build a new telescope to replace Hubble with the ability to observe distant and super faint exoplanets.
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China builds Asia's largest astronomical observatory
China is building a world-class astronomical observatory, opening a new door to its space ambitions.