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Could One Type of Neutron Stars Explain Where Fast Radio Bursts Come From?

Debdutta Paul 03/06/2020

In the last 13 or so years, astronomers have...

meteorite

Oldest Stuff on Earth Found Inside Meteorite That Hit Australia

Will Dunham 15/01/2020

All of the dust specks analyzed in the research...

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Astronomers Discover That the Milky Way Is a Warped and Twisted Galaxy

Will Dunham 02/08/2019

The most precise map to date of the Milky Way was...

angular resolution, black hole, black holes, Event Horizon Telescope, interstellar dust, M87 galaxy, Milky Way galaxy, radio waves, Sagittarius A*, very-long baseline interferometry, Virgo constellation,

First Light From the M87 Black Hole: What Are We Looking At?

Joseph Samuel 15/04/2019

How does a picture of a luminous ring around...

angular resolution, black hole, black holes, Event Horizon Telescope, interstellar dust, M87 galaxy, Milky Way galaxy, radio waves, Sagittarius A*, very-long baseline interferometry, Virgo constellation,

International Team of Astronomers Obtains First Direct Image of a Black Hole

Niruj Mohan Ramanujam 11/04/2019

An FAQ with details of all you need to...

astrometry, Gaia space probe, European Space Agency - ESA, telescope, astrolabe, armillary sphere, trigonometry, Hipparchus, parallax effect, heliometer telescope, 61 Cygni, Astrographic Catalogue, Space Age, Milky Way galaxy, white dwarf stars, Kepler space telescope, Hubble's constant, quadrants, sextants, astronomy,

From Hipparchus to Gaia, the Story of Finding Our Place Among Billions of Stars

Jatan Mehta 27/02/2019

Although astrometry is over 2,200 years old, it wasn't...

NASA Kepler, Kepler space telescope, red dwarf stars, exoplanets, NASA Tess, Kepler K2 mission, transit method, radial velocity method, exobiology, Goldilocks zone, habitable zone, SETI, Milky Way galaxy,

Farewell to Kepler, the First Great Planet-Hunter

Prakash Chandra 19/11/2018

Each new discovery Kepler made took us a step...