iPTF14hls was supposed to dim in 100 days. Instead it exploded five more times over 1,000 days. Archival photos show it also exploded in 1954. No theory fully explains it.
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Researchers at Caltech are starting construction on what could become the most sensitive and fastest radio telescope array ever built.
Astronomers have finally cracked of the mysteries of the famous GJ504b Pink Planet, discovering that its signature rosy haze is shrouded in bizarre, swirling clouds of salt.
Once you cross over to the inside of an event horizon, you can never come out again. But then, how do black holes emit all sorts of things?Continue reading on Starts With A Bang! »
Astronomers may be closing in on a long-standing cosmic mystery: why some of the universe's biggest galaxies seem to have far fewer stars than expected. Using NASA- and JAXA-supported XRISM observations of a galaxy called NGC 4151, researchers found ...
I consider this a success already, just from the fact that we're even going to try this."
The Vatican Observatory has operated since 1774. Four nuns cataloged nearly half a million stars for it in the early 20th century. Today it runs a telescope in Arizona.
Haley Bennett plays an aspiring astronomer in this idiosyncratic spin on Woolf's second novel ...
Astronomers have discovered "one of the most extreme exoplanets" ever found in our universe which orbits a star very like our own Sun.
Don't call it a cluster.