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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

Science Jan 19

Galactic photo shoot captures over 3 billion stars

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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

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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…

Science Apr 16

llustration of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) in front of a lava planet orbiting its host star. TESS will identify thousands of potential new planets for further study and observation. Photo by NASA/GSFC
WATCH LIVE: TESS, NASA’s new exoplanet hunter, launches on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket

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.

By Jason Steffen, The Conversation

Science Dec 21

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The sacred and the scientific clash on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea

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

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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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Aug 19

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Facing Budget Battles, NASA Still Aims High With Asteroid Capture Mission

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Time Runs Out for Telescope, Examining Kepler’s Contribution to Space Research

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