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Save $100 on this 5-inch telescope and enjoy views of Saturn's rings, the belts of Jupiter and bright deep space objects like ...
Type Ia supernovae are triggered by white dwarfs—the fading cores of dead stars. These stellar corpses often steal matter ...
"The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," stated Priyam Das, a PhD student at the University of New South Wales Canberra and study leader. Das further described the findings ...
Travel to James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam and MIRI instrument views of protostar L1527. The protostar is about 100,000 ...
Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted comet hailing from parts unknown, only the third time such an interstellar object ...
We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...
The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...
The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...
Texas astronomers are part of the effort to construct the Giant Magellan Telescope – an effort that will bring a new level of ...
The telescope has the largest digital camera ever made. It’s so precise that one image alone contains 10 million galaxies.
UT-Austin just took a big step in its process of building one of the largest telescopes in the world as the Giant Magellan ...
A prototype antenna for the proposed Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) radio telescope in New Mexico. If funded, the project would greatly expand U.S. radio astronomy capabilities.