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Jan 13, 2025 · Astronomy A zombie star’s spiky filaments shed light on a 12th century supernova A 3-D map of the strange remains of a supernova seen in 1181 traces the odd tendrils of gas …
Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th …
Oct 30, 2024 · Valleriani and colleagues used AI to examine a digitized collection of 359 astronomy textbooks published from 1472, less than 20 years after the first printing of the …
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Jan 24, 2025 · Astronomy JWST’s hunt for distant galaxies keeps turning up surprises In its first year, the James Webb Space Telescope has found many galaxies from the early universe that …
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Jan 24, 2025 · The Space topic features the latest news in astronomy, cosmology, planetary science, exoplanets, astrobiology and more.
The Milky Way may be spawning many more stars than …
Feb 23, 2023 · Ken Croswell has a Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University and is the author of eight books, including The Alchemy of the Heavens: Searching for Meaning in the Milky …
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Jan 24, 2025 · Planetary Science A first look at rocks from the lunar farside create a volcanic mystery Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion …
Astronomers see the astrosphere of a sunlike star for the first time
Dec 6, 2024 · BOSTON — For the first time, astronomers have captured an image of an astrosphere around a star like the sun. This bubble of hot gas is blown by a star’s stellar wind, …
A century of astronomy revealed Earth’s place in the universe
Jul 21, 2021 · Exoplanet astronomy is on firmer ground now. Its leading figures have won MacArthur “genius” grants. Pioneer planet finders Mayor and Queloz won the 2019 Nobel …
Astronomy’s Great Debate foreshadowed today’s view of the …
Apr 24, 2020 · From the book Astronomy of To-Day, 1909. Curtis presented data supporting his view of a smaller Milky Way, citing various estimates of its diameter ranging from 10,000 light …
How radio astronomy put new eyes on the cosmos - Science News
Aug 31, 2021 · A century ago, radio astronomy didn’t exist. But since the 1930s, it has uncovered cosmic secrets from planets next door and the faint glow of the universe’s beginnings.