An international team of astronomers using Gemini North’s GNIRS instrument have discovered that CK Vulpeculae, first seen as a bright new star in 1670, is approximately five times farther away than previously thought.
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On November 18 scientists from the US National Science Foundation’s National Solar Observatory predicted the emergence of a new sunspot group just in time for Thanksgiving.
Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays unleashed more energy in a half-second than the Sun will produce over its entire 10-billion-year lifetime.
A collaboration between the LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) radio telescope in Europe, the Gemini North telescope, and the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF), both on Maunakea in Hawai‘i, has led to the first direct discovery of a cold brown dwarf from its radio wavelength emission.
To better understand stellar evolution, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, has launched an ambitious new initiative with Hubble called ULLYSES (UV Legacy Library of Young Stars as Essential Standards).
Star-studded image shows the glittering central parts of the Milky Way
The Carina Nebula observed in unprecedented detail with adaptive optics
Disappearing Supernova in Distant Galaxy Captured in Hubble Movie
Researchers will study four nearby merging galaxies in unprecedented detail.
Astronomers detect first-of-its-kind exoplanet around dead star
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on August 25, 2020, was captured when the planet was 406 million miles from Earth.
Astronomers and satellite operators agree there’s a problem; report explores practical ways to address it and identifies issues for further study
Gemini Observatory images reveal striking details of our recent celestial visitor’s rotation
Citizen scientists and NOIRLab facilities key to discovery of almost 100 nearby cool brown dwarfs
Five years ago, on 9 August 2015, at the International Astronomical Union General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawai’i, the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) announced that the site of the AURA Observatory in the Elqui Valley of northern Chile would be designated the first International Dark Sky Sanctuary in the world.
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