Are we alone? This question is nearly as old as humanity itself. Today, this question in astronomy focuses …
astronomy
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Space
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The search for planets outside our Solar System — exoplanets — is one of the most rapidly growing …
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Environment
What Is a Solstice? An Astronomer Explains the Long and Short of Days, Years, and Seasons
by Troy OakesHappy solstice everyone! The mid-year solstice in 2023 falls at 2:58 pm UTC on 21 June (or, in …
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We have long been fascinated with the idea of alien life. The earliest written record presenting the idea …
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In 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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A research team, led by astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), …