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New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...
Astronomers uncover the first direct evidence for how some white dwarf stars explode, confirming the long-debated ...
The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...
European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope took photos a rare supernova roughly 300 years after it happened ...
Galaxies shine in a rainbow of emissions from gas, dust, and stars. Each of these building blocks emits light at specific ...
It’s not every day we get to see a visual of the entire Sculptor Galaxy, located approximately 10-11 million light-years from Earth, in all its kaleidoscopic splendour.
The James Webb telescope has captured some seriously cool direct images of a planet beyond our solar system. This is the ...
Astronomers have created the most detailed image of a galaxy of its kind ever seen. The “incredibly detailed” picture shows ...
The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way ...
Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image that reveals previously unseen features in the Sculptor Galaxy. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope ...
This handout provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). (ESO ...
New images of a young star, 2MASSJ1612, could have captured the birth of a giant gas planet larger than Jupiter.