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“This will mark the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics,” the Rubin team announced ahead of the unveiling.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is releasing its first images on 23 June, showing us galaxies as we’ve never seen them before. Here’s how you can join a party to see those shots in full definition ...
Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption event.
As temperatures in Rome swelter this month, reaching more than 35 degrees Celsius (95°F) under the hot Mediterranean sun, ...
Of the 69 FRBs used by the team, 39 were discovered by a network of 110 radio telescopes located at Caltech's Owen Valley ...
Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?
A breathtaking new image from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) captures the star-forming region of Chamaeleon I, a site that ...
Astronomers have finally tracked down missing "ordinary" matter, which they discovered hiding as gas spread out in the vast ...
Using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope, astronomers have discovered an entire galaxy cluster wrapped in a 20 million ...
New observations of the “city killer” asteroid once thought to be on a collision course with the Earth indicate it will miss ...
In late May, Saanich student Nathan Hellner-Mestelman received the TD Scholarship for Community Leadership – an award coveted ...
A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.