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Science Apr 20

Gaia space observatory bids farewell after a decade of mapping the stars

By John Yang, Harry Zahn

Science Feb 10

An artist's concept shows the Euclid space telescope, built by the European Space Agency (ESA), in operation
In our cosmic neighborhood, space telescope spots rare ‘Einstein ring’ of light around galaxy

The halo, known as an Einstein ring, encircles a galaxy 590 million light-years away.

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Science Jan 19

This image, which is brimming with stars and dark dust clouds, is a small extract — a mere pinprick — of the full Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at the NSF’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab. Photo provided by DECaPS2/ DOE/ FNAL/ DECam/ CTIO/ NOIRLab/ NSF/ AURA
Galactic photo shoot captures over 3 billion stars

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.

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Science Jan 30

Hawaii telescope reveals details of the sun’s turbulent surface

A telescope in Hawaii is revealing the turbulent gas surface of the sun in what scientists called unprecedented detail.

By Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press

Science Apr 10

Watch 6:57
What the first photograph of a black hole can reveal about space

A black hole is a cosmic abyss with gravity of such intensity that nothing, not even light, escapes it. Now, for the first time, a team of astronomers has released an image of the space anomaly, which is created when…

Apr 16

WATCH LIVE: TESS, NASA’s new exoplanet hunter, launches on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

By Jason Steffen, The Conversation

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will monitor more than 200,000 stars to discover thousands of exoplanets, ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants.

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Dec 21

Watch 8:42
The sacred and the scientific clash on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea

By PBS News Hour

Over a thousand years ago, Polynesians followed the stars in the Mauna Kea sky on their path to Hawaii. Those stars are now of interest to astronomers, who believe the mountain's summit is the perfect spot to build a giant,…

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Dec 14

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This sacred mountain is the focal point of a fight over a giant telescope

By PBS News Hour

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Jun 06

World’s largest radio telescope faces retirement due to stagnant funding

By Sarah Scoles, Scientific American

The National Science Foundation is considering pulling its support from the famous Arecibo radio dish in Puerto Rico…

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Jun 04

Looks like there’s a party in deep space and Hubble’s got the photos

By Jenny Marder

If a tractor full of confetti was launched into the night sky and then beamed with a strobe light, it might look something like the Hubble Space Telescope image above. It is, according to NASA, among the most colorful of…

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