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The sun: Facts about the bright star at the center of the solar system
Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.
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The Sky This Week from June 6 to 13: Jupiter and Mercury meet
Enjoy a close conjunction of the solar system’s smallest and largest planet just days before the Full Strawberry Moon this ...
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Observing with a 4-meter telescope
A fortunate dozen spent a night with the 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope, happy to be gazing at some great deep-sky ...
The Webb telescope found something exceedingly rare around a dying star
Scientists have discovered a few thousand planetary nebulas in the Milky Way. Those include the Ring Nebula, aka NGC 6720 and Messier 57. With Webb, the researchers could see a compact dust cloud ...
Space.com on MSN19h
Powerful solar telescope unveils ultra-fine magnetic 'curtains' on the sun's surface
The images show ultra-fine bright and dark stripes (called striations) in the thin, gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere ...
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A possible new dwarf planet skirts the solar system’s edge
For the dwarf planet candidate, one trip around the sun takes over 24,000 years. Its orbit challenges a proposed path for a hypothetical Planet Nine.
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James Webb telescope unveils largest-ever map of the universe, spanning over 13 billion years
The largest map of the universe, created with data from the James Webb Space Telescope, shows almost 800,000 galaxies crammed ...