American Astronomical Society Statement on Proposed Cancellation of Webb Space Telescope “The American Astronomical Society calls upon all members of Congress to support JWST to its completion and to provide […]
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Stunning Image of VFTS 682 in the Large Magellanic Cloud
VLT Finds a Brilliant But Solitary Superstar “An extraordinarily bright isolated star has been found in a nearby galaxy — the star is three million times brighter than the Sun. […]
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Citizen Science – Nonstop – For a Century
20-Million Milestone for 100-Year Citizen Science Project “A citizen science project running for over 100 years reached a key milestone this month when an amateur astronomer contributed the 20 millionth […]
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Stunning Hubble Image of NGC 2841
Hubble Shows New Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841 “NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope reveals a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy NGC […]
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Students Discover A Pulsar
Students Excited by Stellar Discovery , NRAO “In the constellation of Ophiuchus, above the disk of our Milky Way Galaxy, there lurks a stellar corpse spinning 30 times per second […]
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Crowdsourcing Astronomical Definitions
What is a Galaxy? Cast Your Vote Here “Our aim here is to promote further discussion of how to define a galaxy and, in particular, what separates it from a […]
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Hubble Makes Another Unusual Discovery
Hubble Zooms In on a Space Oddity “One of the strangest space objects ever seen is being scrutinized by the penetrating vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. A mysterious, glowing, […]
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Webb Cost Overruns May Kill Wfirst Mission
Quest for Dark Energy May Fade to Black, NY Times “An ambitious $1.6 billion spacecraft that would investigate the mysterious force that is apparently accelerating the expansion of the universe […]
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Please Look at This Image
Breaking Waves in the Stellar Lagoon “A spectacular new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the heart of the Lagoon Nebula. Seen as a massive cloud of glowing dust and […]
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Space & Astronomy Live From The White House Lawn
President Obama kicked off Astronomy Night on the South Lawn of the White House. Some 150 middle school students from the Washington area got to learn more about their universe […]