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Nancy Grace Roman will Map the Far Side of the Milky Way
The Galaxy is a collection of stars, planets, gas clouds and to the dismay of astronomers, dust clouds. The dust…
Astronomers See the Wreckage Where Planets Crashed Into Each Other in a Distant Star System
Our Solar System was born in chaos. Collisions shaped and built the Earth and the other planets, and even delivered…
It Turns out There Were Supernovae Exploding all Over, we Just Couldn’t see Them
When the poet Horace said “We are but dust and shadow”, he probably didn’t think that dust itself could create…
Citizen Scientists Discover a new Feature in Star Formation: “Yellowballs”
AI is often touted as being particularly good at finding patterns amongst reams of data. But humans also are extremely…
Do Comets Explain Mystery Star’s Bizarre Behavior?
The story of KIC 8462852 appears far from over. You'll recall NASA's Kepler mission had monitored the star for four years,…
Weekly Space Hangout – April 17, 2015: Amy Shira Teitel and “Breaking the Chains of Gravity”
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Amy Shira Teitel (@astVintageSpace) discussing space history and her new book Breaking the Chains…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 367: Spitzer does Exoplanets
We've spent the last few weeks talking about different ways astronomers are searching for exoplanets. But now we reach the…
360 Degrees of Milky Way at Your Fingertips
Touring the Milky Way's a blast with this brand new 360-degree interactive panorama. More than 2 million infrared photos taken…
Runaway Star Shocks the Galaxy!
That might seem like a sensational headline worthy of a supermarket tabloid but, taken in context, it's exactly what's happening…
Astronomers Catch a Galactic Threesome in the Act
An enormous and incredibly luminous distant galaxy has turned out to actually be three galaxies in the process of merging…