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See The New 10-Terabyte Image Of Our Galaxy That Reveals Over Three Billion New Celestial Objects

Jessica Jan 19, 2023 0

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new ... dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest…
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Mile-Wide ‘Planet Killer’ Asteroid Found In Sun’s Glare, Say Scientists

Jessica Oct 31, 2022 0

Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at NOIRLab’s ... Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile have enabled astronomers to spot…
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See And Download The Stunning New 570-Megapixel Image Of The ‘Lobster Nebula’

Jessica Sep 30, 2022 0

This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera on ... the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American…
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An Amateur Astronomer Just Discovered A New ‘Fossil’ Of The First Galaxies In The Halo Of Andromeda

Jessica Jul 2, 2022 0

A unique ultra-faint dwarf galaxy has been discovered in the outer fringes of the Andromeda Galaxy ... thanks to the sharp eyes of an amateur astronomer examining archival…
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‘Shredded’ Star Cluster Discovered In Milky Way Is An Ancient Fossil From Soon After The Big Bang…

Jessica Jan 10, 2022 0

This illustration shows the location of the C-19 stellar stream (orange, vertical stream of stars in ... lower left), which was recently discovered at the edge of our…
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