Gemini: Total Annihilation for Supermassive Stars
A renegade star exploding in a distant galaxy has forced astronomers to set aside decades of research and focus on ...
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NOAO: Automated Observing Network Inaugurated at SOAR Telescope
Supernovae, neutron star mergers, black holes at the center of galaxies, erupting young stars — these are all examples of ...
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Gemini: Cosmic Cat and Mouse: Astronomers Capture and Tag a Fleeting Radio Burst
Gemini Observatory provides critical observations that confirm the distance to a mysterious, very short-lived, radio outburst from a galaxy billions ...
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NOAO: Commemorating 100 years of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
Team of University of La Serena students to recreate the Eddington Experiment that proved Einstein right ...
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NSO: To Image the Sun DKIST Starts With the Stars – Integration and Testing of M1 and M2 Assembly with Night-time Observation
While the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope will stare at the Sun to detect magnetic fields, it ...
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NOAO: Cosmic Fireworks in the Clouds: Volunteer Detectives Sought for Magellanic Clouds Cluster Search
Caught in a cosmic dance, our nearest neighbor galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds, are cartwheeling and circling each other as they ...
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Gemini: Ultra-sharp Images Make Old Stars Look Absolutely Marvelous!
Just as high-definition imaging is transforming home entertainment, it is also advancing the way astronomers study the Universe ...
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NOAO: Citizen Scientists Invited to Join Quest for New Worlds
The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project re-launches this week, with a call to volunteer citizen scientists to join the search ...
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