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Astronomers have discovered the first radio signals from a unique category of dying stars, called Type Ibn supernovae, and ...

Alexander Venner picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA telescope called Kepler, which ...

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French smart telescope maker Unistellar has been on a mission to make stargazing easier for amateurs for years, and has now launched its cheapest models to date. The Odyssey range packs in Nikon ...

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New Technology Brings Space Telescope Image Quality Down to Earth, Offering Astronomical Image Clarity Never Seen Before The next generation of adaptive optics has arrived at the Large Binocular ...

We now have direct images of two supermassive black holes: M87* and Sag A*. The fact that we can capture such images is ...

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Maybe you have had a casual interest in astronomy for years, looking up at the night sky every chance you get. Or maybe you’ve just recently become interested in the wonders hanging high above our ...

India is significantly boosting its astronomical observation capabilities with four new and upgraded facilities. Finance ...