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Pismis 24 star birth

Science Sep 05

Thousands of newborn stars dazzle in Webb Space Telescope’s latest snapshot

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Science Jun 18

PARLIAMENT HOUSE MOTHS
Meet the moths that map the stars to fly long distances

It's an impressive feat for Bogong moths, whose brains are smaller than the size of a grain of rice, to rely on the night sky for their odyssey, said study author David Dreyer with Lund University in Sweden.

By Adithi Ramakrishnan, Associated Press

Science Aug 24

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A nova explosion may soon be visible in the night sky. Here’s where and when to look

Keep an eye on the sky for the second half of 2024 and you might be able to witness a rare astronomical event. A space scientist explains how nova events work and where to look.

By Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation

Science May 23

A filamentary orange veil covers a bright region of star formation. The background is dark, stippled with stars and galaxies ranging from small bright dots to starry shapes. The foreground veil spans from upper left to the bottom right and resembles a seahorse. Bright stars light up the ‘eye’ and ‘chest’ regions of the seahorse with purple light. Within the tail, three bright spots sit in a traffic-light like formation.
A cradle of baby stars revealed in new European space telescope images

They were taken following the telescope's Florida launch last year as a warm-up act to its main job currently underway: surveying the so-called dark universe.

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Science Dec 11

Betelgeuse, a Red Supergiant Star in Orion
Asteroid to temporarily obscure Betelgeuse star in unique eclipse

The rare event will occur late Monday into early Tuesday. Weather permitting, it should be visible to millions of people along a narrow path stretching from central Asia and southern Europe to parts of Florida and Mexico.

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Mar 14

NASA’s James Webb telescope captures a star on the cusp of death

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

The observation was among the first made by Webb following its launch in late 2021. Its infrared eyes observed all the gas and dust flung into space by a huge, hot star 15,000 light-years away.

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Jan 19

Galactic photo shoot captures over 3 billion stars

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

A dark-energy camera on a telescope in Chile made the observations over two years, focusing on the Southern Hemisphere sky. Results were released this week.

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Mar 30

Move over, Icarus. Hubble finds Earendel, the farthest star from Earth

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

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.

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Apr 26

This stunning map of the Milky Way pinpoints more than 1 billion stars

By Lee Billings, Scientific American

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has released a catalog, the most detailed to date, of more than 1.5 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

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Jun 07

Einstein’s theory and ‘bent light’ reveal a way to weigh stars for first time

By Andrew Wagner

Rather than expose whether celestial objects need to go on a diet, this new weight scale offers a chance to learn more about the life cycle of stars, including our sun.

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