Astronomers Call for Global Ban on Space Advertising Before It’s Too Late
Space advertising is not currently a problem, but the enterprise needs to be smothered before it has a chance to grow, ...
How Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Nearly Broke Cosmology—and Helped Fix It
Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.
Flickering, invisible space loops may help predict solar flares
It’s notoriously difficult to predict when the sun will belch out a large solar flare — an explosive burst of radiation that ...
American Astronomical Society Calls On Nations To Ban Advertising In Space
The American Astronomical Society is calling on all nations to ban advertising in space that can be seen from the ground. Their concern is that "obtrusive ...
TESS and JWST unveil disintegrating planetary interiors
Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, two teams of astronomers—centered at Penn State and MIT—independently announced ...
NASA's Webb telescope threatened with budget cuts. They would hit hard.
"The operations work at STScI, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and other NASA contractors is funded by the operational ...
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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.
The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...
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A cosmic ‘Platypus’ might link two astronomical mysteries
A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.
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100 years ago: Edwin Hubble proved the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the universe
In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...
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Albion grant to recruit black students in robotics raises questions about discrimination
Albion College’s Physics Department recently received a $200,000 grant to recruit more African American students in its ...
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Astronomers find the most distant supernova yet
JWST revealed a massive star that ended its life in an explosion when the universe was just a cosmic toddler.
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Tucson doctor wins national award for his second act as amateur astronomer
A retired Tucson heart doctor won a national amateur astronomy award for helping University of Arizona scientists detect some of the faintest and most confounding galaxies in the universe.