Source of Magellanic Stream Identified by Hubble
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have solved a 40-year mystery on the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway…
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Did a Need for Lighting Fires Lead to the Development of the Telescope?
While working to correct an extreme case of myopia (otherwise known as short-sightedness), Dutch optician Hans Lippershey stumbled upon the fact that a particular arrangement of…
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Galaxy Evolution Puzzle Cracked With the Help of the Hubble Space Telescope
New observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have helped astronomers crack a longstanding puzzle about galaxy evolution. For years, scientists have wondered why galaxies that have…
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Subaru Telescope’s New Camera Takes Stunning Image of Andromeda Galaxy
This stunning image of M31 captured by Subaru Telescope‘s Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) displays the fruits of international collaboration and technological sophistication aligned with cutting-edge science. The…
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AAVSO Alert Notice 488: Observations of AA Tau Requested to Schedule XMM-Newton
AAVSO Alert Notice 488 Observations of AA Tau requested to schedule XMM-Newton August 1, 2013 Dr. Hans Moritz Guenther (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) has requested nightly…
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Could There Be Hope in Getting the Kepler Space Telescope Working Again?
On Wednesday (July 24), some cautiously optimistic news from the team attempting to recover NASA’s stricken Kepler space telescope was announced. The recovery effort, which began…
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Gas Emission From Comet Ison Seen by Spitzer Space Telescope
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely are strong carbon dioxide emissions from Comet ISON ahead of its anticipated pass through the…
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Across the world, children fall asleep under the faint light from glow-in-the-dark astronomy stickers. Though undeniably adorable, these ceiling planetariums are too jam-packed to be realistic. You’d…
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SETI: British Style
SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, is an almost uniquely American affair. There was a time when it was funded by the US government, but that…
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Farewell to Herschel
The tiny dot against the streaking star field in the image below is one of the last views that ground-based observers will see of ESA’s iconic…
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