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Here’s How Astronomers Are Looking for Alien Life Beyond Earth
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesWe have long been fascinated with the idea of alien life. The earliest written record presenting the idea …
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Silent as the Night: Why Radio Astronomy Doesn’t Listen to the Sky
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesIn the 1997 movie Contact, Ellie Arroway is a young radio astronomy scientist played by Jodie Foster. Ellie’s on …
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Combining images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope over more than 20 years, a team of UA researchers …
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Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive …
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Star-forming galaxies are responsible for creating gamma rays that until now had not been associated with a known origin, researchers from …
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From the broadcasting of major events to tracking major developments on the planet and in the atmosphere, satellites …
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Chinese Astronomers Discover 591 High-Velocity Stars With LAMOST and Gaia
by Troy Oakesby Troy OakesA research team, led by astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), …
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Astronomers have presented an explanation for the shapes of planetary nebulae. The discovery is based on a set …
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A gigantic, balloon-like structure has been hiding in plain sight, right in the center of our own galaxy. …