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Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...
The 2025 Buck Moon rises on July 10, in the southeast from about 10pm in the UK. July's full Moon is called the 'Buck Moon' ...
Sure, Sagittarius can sometimes be blunt, restless, and a little commitment-phobic. But that’s only because their heart is ...
The amount of data gathered by Rubin Observatory in just the first year of the LSST will be greater than that collected by all other observatories combined,” stated Mike England in a recent briefing.
By analyzing the data from the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey, Chinese astronomers have investigated a globular cluster known as ...
Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?
At the American Museum of Natural History last fall, experts were hard at work preparing ''Encounters in the Milky Way," a deep dive into our home galaxy shaped by the movements of stars and other ...
The planet 2M1510 (AB) b orbits two stars — like Luke Skywalker’s home planet of Tatooine, for the Star Wars fans — but it does so in a highly unusual way.
This image indicates the location of the newly discovered binary star D9, which is orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. F. Peißker et al., S. Guisard/ESO ...
An international team of researchers led by PD Dr Florian Peißker has found the first binary star in the immediate vicinity of the supermassive black hole Sgr A* (Sagittarius A star) at the ...