The Beatles are one of the greatest cultural phenomena to come from the 20th Century, yet many people are unaware of their impact on science.
Space Exploration
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In a nod to the global amateur astronomy community, as well as to any space enthusiast who enjoys the beauty of the cosmos, the Hubble Space Telescope mission is releasing its version of the popular Messier catalog, featuring ...
Astronomy
Oct 20, 2017
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The SETI Institute and French startup Unistellar announced a partnership today to commercialize a new telescope that promises to deliver an unparalleled view of the cosmos to amateur astronomers, and provide the opportunity ...
Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2017
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This colourful, seemingly abstract artwork is actually a map of our Galaxy, depicting all the celestial objects that were detected in the XMM-Newton slew survey between August 2001 and December 2014.
Astronomy
May 15, 2017
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A new citizen-science project will rescue tens of thousands of potentially valuable cosmic images that are mostly dead to science and bring them fully back to life. Called Astronomy Rewind, the effort, which launches today ...
Astronomy
Mar 22, 2017
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An important part of studying celestial objects is understanding and removing the background noise.
Astronomy
Dec 19, 2016
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ESA's Gaia is surveying stars in our Galaxy and local galactic neighbourhood in order to build the most precise 3D map of the Milky Way and answer questions about its structure, origin and evolution.
Astronomy
Nov 10, 2016
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Never before have astrophysicists measured light of such high energy from a celestial object so far away. Around 7 billion years ago, a huge explosion occurred at the black hole in the center of a galaxy. This was followed ...
Astronomy
Nov 4, 2016
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Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detected a clear signal from oxygen in a galaxy located 13.1 billion light-years away from us. This is the most distant oxygen ever detected. Oxygen ...
Astronomy
Jun 16, 2016
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An international team of researchers is developing an instrument that will decode the light of the night sky to understand the nature of dark matter.
Astronomy
May 26, 2016
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