Imagine you go to a theme park with your family and you ask a park employee to take a group photo. A celebrity walks by in the background and waves at the camera, stealing the focus of the photo. Surprisingly, this concept ...
Astronomy
Aug 17, 2022
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Stunning new images created by Keele researchers highlight the turbulent flow of energy inside distant stars.
Astronomy
Aug 16, 2022
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If you close your eyes and imagine a system of planets orbiting a distant star, what do you see?
Astronomy
Jul 22, 2022
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The first stunning images from the James Webb Space Telescope were revealed this week, but its journey of cosmic discovery has only just begun.
Astronomy
Jul 14, 2022
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The James Webb Space Telescope's first images aren't just breathtaking—they contain a wealth of scientific insights and clues that researchers are eager to pursue.
Astronomy
Jul 13, 2022
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If, as astronomers believe, the deaths of large stars leave behind black holes, there should be hundreds of millions of them scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy. The problem is, isolated black holes are invisible.
Astronomy
Jun 10, 2022
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Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms trained on real astronomical observations now outperform astronomers in sifting through massive amounts of data to find new exploding stars, identify new types of galaxies and detect ...
Astronomy
May 24, 2022
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As NASA's James Webb Space Telescope moves through the final phases of commissioning its science instruments, we have also begun working on technical operations of the observatory. While the telescope moves through space, ...
Space Exploration
May 20, 2022
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How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own solar system.
Astronomy
Apr 5, 2022
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Astronomers have discovered the farthest star yet, a super-hot, super-bright giant that formed nearly 13 billion years ago at the dawn of the cosmos.
Astronomy
Apr 2, 2022
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