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ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...
April 21 - 28 is International Dark Sky Week, a global celebration of the night sky during which like-minded organizations ...
Pulling the plastic bins down the rough pavement of my driveway, I stare up at a smattering of stars and planets. I can’t see that many; the band of the Milky Way that I used to see nightly when I ...
Nasa is tracking a potentially devastating “zombie star” as it races through our galaxy at more than 177,000kmh.
The Jackson Hole Airport in Grand Teton National Park joins more than 80 other internationally recognized dark sky places in ...
"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...
The Church frontman Steve Kilbey had no idea he was sitting on an Australian classic when the band played Under the Milky Way ...
ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.
A new study released on Thursday describes a search for what are called "microlensing" events, where a planet acts as a ...
A dazzling snapshot from ESO’s Paranal Observatory captures a rare sky parade — the Moon, a comet, and nearly every visible planet strung across the heavens. This celestial lineup is an optical ...
Astronomers confirm a wandering black hole in our galaxy’s Sagittarius region using Hubble and Gaia microlensing data.