Amateur astrophotographer Emil Andronic has captured a striking image of the Cat's Eye Nebula from his home in Hertfordshire, ...

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Using a newly developed adaptive optics system called Cona, scientists peered through Earth's turbulent air to reveal the sun ...

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Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from ...