Solar Science Teams Selected for 2019 Eclipse at CTIO
July 2nd 2019 will be a very special day in South America. On that day a total eclipse will travel from west to east across the continent and, in a spectacular stroke of astronomical luck, ...
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Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System
Our solar system has eight major planets, and nearly 200 moons. Though astronomers have to date found nearly 4,000 planets orbiting other stars, no moons have yet been found. That hasn't been for any lack ...
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Hubble Goes Wide to Seek Out Far-Flung Galaxies
The universe is a big place. The Hubble Space Telescope's views burrow deep into space and time, but cover an area a fraction the angular size of the full Moon ...
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Chilean scientists using Blanco telescope discover crucial event right before the death of a star
A new paper in the journal Nature Astronomy, The delay of shock breakout due to circumstellar material evident in most Type II Supernovae, written by a group of researchers from the Center for Mathematical Modeling ...
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Astronomers Blown Away by Historic Stellar Blast
Observations from the Gemini South and other telescopes in Chile played a critical role in understanding light echoes from a stellar eruption which occurred almost 200 years ago ...
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Scientists using National Science Foundation Observatories find 12 new moons of Jupiter
Sometimes you find something you weren't even looking for. A team of scientists led by Carnegie Science's Scott S. Sheppard just announced the discovery of twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter, found during a search for ...
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