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The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Gaia space observatory spent 22 months conducting a comprehensive survey of 1.7 billion stars in our sky, creating the most detailed star catalogue to date. The data, which was released on April 25 and will appear in a special issue of Astronomy & Astrophysics, ...

Pending the approval of funding for expanding LIGO's experimental capabilities, researchers hope to close these gaps in knowledge to identify a more defined theory of general relativity and its relation to gravity and space-time. It's safe to say that astronomy fans and researchers alike can get excited for a ...

Housing thousands of galaxies and an absurd amount of stars, galaxy clusters are the most massive known objects in the universe. It was previously believed that these clusters formed when young starburst galaxies collided about 3 billion years after the Big Bang, but now, two teams of international ...

After a feverish wait, astronomers around the world have an ocean of new information to throw themselves into. This afternoon in Europe, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia mission published its first fully 3D map of the Milky Way. The data haul includes the positions of nearly 1.7 billion stars, and the ...

“Here, if we want to study a white dwarf whose surface is at 15,000 degrees, then we're doing the experiment at 15,000 degrees,” said Mike Montgomery, deputy director of CAPP and clinical researcher in the Department of Astronomy. “It is really like taking a piece from the Sun and looking at it under a ...

With the help of artificially intelligence, astronomers now have a better method for determining the long-term habitability of exoplanets orbiting more than one star. By Jake Parks | Published: Monday, April 23, 2018. kepler16. This artist's concept shows the view from a hypothetical moon around the planet HD 188753 Ab, ...

That cloud was far from homogenous, a fact today's research, published in Nature Astronomy reinforces. Though the researchers were only able to observe chemical signatures from the uppermost layers of Uranus' clouds, they were able to extrapolate their findings to the inner regions, where they say ...

CLARKSBURG — People of all ages were able to experience outer space in a variety of ways during the 18th annual Astronomy Day hosted by the Central ... The day, which is observed nationwide, aims to encourage interest in astronomy and educate people about it, said John Taylor, vice president of the ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. - Fairmont State University's Gaston Caperton Center in Clarksburg played host to the annual Astronomy Day. Solar System Ambassadors, representatives from NASA, and volunteers hosted children and family members for a day full of activities. Organizers said the hands-on ...

MONTPELIER – She was a “computer” before there were computers. She made discoveries that changed the fundamentals of astronomy before science would discover whom she was. And she died before she could be given a Nobel Prize – yet few know this woman existed. Henrietta Leavitt (1868-1921) ...

SCHENECTADY -- Blindfolded and with different obstacles to get through, Bert Trzepacz listened to his father, Louis, give him directions so he didn't touch the hazards when trying to pick up rocks. Step forward, now a small step to the left, now a small step to the right were some of the directions Louis ...

“That was the thing that I was most naturally good at but I got a bee in my bonnet about astronomy and went off in a different direction.” Reynolds' became as fascinated with science fact as he did with science fiction: “I can't really disentangle them. I connected with Star Trek but at the same time I began ...

In a paper published April 1 in Astronomy & Geophysics, Keith Atkin, a retired associate lecturer in physics at the University of Sheffield, UK, argues that while the professional field of astronomy has moved away from the imperial units of miles, pounds, and degrees Fahrenheit, “this transition has not been ...

... very carefully, and then use The Cannon's machine learning algorithms to determine the amount of each element for all of the 340,000 stars," said Sven Buder, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany and lead author of the scientific paper describing the GALAH data release.

... very carefully, and then use The Cannon's machine learning algorithms to determine the amount of each element for all of the 340,000 stars," said Sven Buder, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany and lead author of the scientific paper describing the GALAH data release.

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Sirius B, the small dot in the lower left of this deliberately overexposed image, is a white dwarf companion star to Sirius A, the brightest star in the night sky. (NASA, ESA, H. Bond (STScI) and M. Barstow (University of Leicester) / Courtesy Photo). (Daniel Zantzinger / Skywatcher's Guide). It's clear from ...

Teaching Astronomy to small children,” attempts to introduce teacher education in teaching astronomy to students in kindergarten, pre-school, and primary school, and, as the title shows, it contains the “first steps” in astronomical knowledge. It is divided into two major parts: core and supplemental material ...

Gathering areas, open green space and parking are also featured at the Astronomy Park. Park officials said it's ideal for research, star parties, special events and general daily visitation. For an extra special touch, Astronaut John Glenn agreed to lend his name to the park, giving it his blessing shortly before ...

70,000 years ago, a nomadic star came within a light-year of the Sun, likely sending dozens of comets and asteroids tumbling out of the solar system. By Jake Parks | Published: Tuesday, March 27, 2018. ancientstar. A wandering star passed within one light-year of the Sun roughly 70,000 years ago. At the time, modern ...

The planets around TRAPPIST-1 are estimated to be between 15 and 50 percent water by mass — Earth is only 0.02 percent. By Amber Jorgenson | Published: Wednesday, March 28, 2018. Trappist12. The seven planets that tightly orbit TRAPPIST-1 likely underwent an inward migration over time, influencing the state of ...

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This position, about 1 million miles (1.5 million kilometers) away, will help to keep the telescope cool, which is vital in infrared astronomy (the Hubble, by comparison, is an optical telescope, so it doesn't face this requirement). Add to that the spacecraft's complex transition from its launch configuration, ...

“These acoustic oscillations ran for a few hundred thousand years in the very early universe,” says Mark Halpern, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia and a CHIME investigator. “They left spherical shells of about four hundred million light years in diameter, a size that we ...

“I didn't believe the ancient galaxy hypothesis initially, but finally I was surprised because it's not that common to find what you predict in astronomy,” Dr. Beasley said. “Typically, the Universe always comes up with more surprises that you can think about.” _____. Michael A. Beasley et al. A single population ...

An artist's illustration shows three planets orbiting a dim red dwarf star. A recent study of red dwarfs near Earth uncovered 15 never-before-seen exoplanets in their orbits. NASA/JPL-Caltech. The hunt for habitability outside our solar system is both ongoing and won't be slowing down anytime soon.

The Latest on the death of Stephen Hawking (all times local):. 6:45 p.m.. The head of the Vatican's astronomical observatory has hailed Stephen Hawking as a scientist who gave a "human face" to astronomy. Observatory director the Rev. Guy Consolmagno said Wednesday that the observatory mourned ...

The head of the Vatican's astronomical observatory has hailed Stephen Hawking as a scientist who gave a "human face" to astronomy. Observatory director the Rev. Guy Consolmagno said Wednesday that the observatory mourned Hawking's death. He called him a "scientist of admirable intuition, who ...

The Department of Physics & Astronomy in the College of Science & Mathematics at Rowan University, Glassboro, will host an astronomy open house for the university community and the general public on Thursday, March 22. (The rain date is Friday, March 23.) The Edelman Planetarium will be open for ...

Naturally then, astronomy is often described as the oldest of the sciences, inspiring people for thousands of years. Celestial phenomena are featured in prehistoric cave paintings. And monuments such as the Great Pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge seem to be aligned with precision to cardinal points or the ...

“It's not Swiss watch precision,” said Gerhardt Meurer, an astronomer from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), in a press release. “But regardless of whether a galaxy is very big or very small, if you could sit on the extreme edge of its disk as it spins, it would take you about a ...

Lauren Rogers is over the moon with her recent appointment as sole Astronomy Instructor at Pensacola State College (PSC). In addition, the astronomy department is all the buzz due to upcoming celestial phenomena. The retired Dr. Wayne Wooten's forty year tenure as the penultimate astronomy ...

Jupiter's Great Red Spot with Earth superimposed at the same scale. The huge storm has been shrinking overall since continuous observations began in 1878, but a new NASA study shows it is moving faster and extending upward. Image: NASA. Jupiter's Great Red Spot with Earth superimposed at the ...

The Extreme Precision Spectrometer – EXPRES – is a new ground-based instrument capable of detecting Earth-size exoplanets using the Lowell Observatory's Discovery Channel Telescope (seen here). Image: Lowell Observatory/Yale University. Yale University astronomers have developed a powerful ...

“You go to a movie and you see planets,” said Jim Mack, a member of the the Skywatchers Club, which bills itself as “NASA Langley's Astronomy Club.” “But most people don't realize that you can just go to your back door and see different planets and galaxies.” Astronomy enthusiasts in Hampton Roads ...

The United States is a strong leader in astronomy, but that leadership is in peril if the proposed cuts to NASA in the current White House budget take effect. If Congress approves these cuts, NASA's astrophysics budget would be the lowest in more than a decade, if you adjust for inflation. This sends the ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3972, which is found in the constellation of Ursa Major. This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on board the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3972. Image credit: ...

Maria Bergemann (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany) and colleagues have explored stars in two stellar populations known as the Triangulum-Andromeda (TriAnd for short) and A13 using the Keck I telescope in Hawaii and Very Large Telescope in Chile. The results are published in Nature ...

In a surprise, new data indicate supermassive black holes at the hearts of giant galaxies are growing faster than the rate of star formation in their host galaxies. Image: NASA/CXC. New studies using NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories indicate that ...

Schindler is the historian at Lowell Observatory, where he has worked for the past two decades. He regularly writes astronomy and history articles for a variety of publications and contributes an astronomy column, “View from Mars Hill”, for the Arizona Daily Sun newspaper. Grundy, a planetary scientist, has ...

Fermilab's Don Lincoln is back with yet another entertaining video, this time about what people get wrong about time dilation. In particular, he asks whether the famous “twin paradox” is actually paradoxical. You can watch the video above, enjoy. Have you taken a stunning photograph of the sky lately?

ESA/MPS/DLR/IDA. Despite its oddities and its harsh conditions, Venus remains a mysterious place that beckons us to return and explore. In celebration of Astronomy magazine's recently released Venus globe, we've collected a few of our favorite web features highlighting our neighbor world. Weird Object: ...

Microorganisms that survive conditions in the Atacama Desert suggest microbial life could do the same on Mars. By Amber Jorgenson | Published: Friday, March 02, 2018. 163827_web. Researchers observed microorganisms reverting back to their dormant state, where they could remain for decades, after an extremely rare ...

To find this unknown signal, the team of researchers used an Earth-based instrument called a radio spectrometer, located at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) in Western Australia. As part of the Experiment to Detect the Global Epoch of reionization Signature (EDGES), the team ...

The work, authored by Elena Nokhrina, appeared December 22 in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. Black holes are believed to rotate, just as stars and planets do. As material streams into them from their accretion disk, they absorb angular momentum and spin faster. This effect is also observed ...

In July 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a “bit of scruff” in the radio data she was receiving at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory. Together with her Ph.D. advisor Antony Hewish, she zeroed in and followed up on the strange signal. In February 1968, the pair (together with three additional ...

Diamonds found in meteorites on Earth may have come from an ancient long-dead planet the size of Mercury or Mars, the first potential known relics from these lost worlds, a new study finds. Scientists examined a ureilite, a kind of meteorite that is rich in carbon and sometimes even possesses diamonds.

Astronomers have put significant time and effort toward identifying habitable exoplanets, and with new technology emerging, it looks like their hard work could pay off sooner rather than later. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission expected to identify thousands of exoplanet ...

The galactic pair, located in the constellation Cetus, will spend millions of years being pulled together by strong gravitational forces until they combine into one. NASA, ESA. Talk about getting up close and personal. The two spiral galaxies that make up the ARP 256 system have just begun a long and ...