Tag: Astronomy

Annie Jump Cannon Gets Google Doodle On 151st Birthday
Annie Jump Cannon is the subject of a doodle today on Google's homepage, as the search giant celebrates her 151st birthday. Cannon was an astronomer whose work was considered i...
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Hubble Space Telescope: Deep Field Image Brightened With Ultraviolet Light
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) is one of the most iconic and impressive images ever taken of deep space. The image, taken of a tiny section of the southern sky, shows thousand...
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Ganymede Sea Could Be Layered and Harbor Life
For decades now Jupiter's moon Ganymede has been one of the more interesting objects in our solar system. The moon is one o...
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Mars, Earth, And Sun All Set To Form Cosmic Alignment Called An ‘Opposition’
A rare astronomical event that takes place about every 26 months is set to happen on Tuesday, April 8th. Dubbed an “Opposition of Mars”, this spacial phenomenon invol...
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Moon Water May Not Be As Abundant As First Thought
In the latest twist surrounding the composition of the moon, scientists have discovered the possibility of the Earth and moon sharing the same source of water. A scientific paper e...
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Ring System Spotted Around Asteroid
Astronomers today revealed that an asteroid in the outer solar system has been confirmed to have its own Saturn-like ring...
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Moon Craters Mapped by Amateurs as Well as the Pros
CosmoQuest, a collective of amateur astronomers that identify and map craters on various space objects, including the moon, has gotten so adept in their studies that their data has...
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Largest Yellow Star Yet Seen Spotted in Binary System
Astronomers this week revealed that they have spotted the largest yellow star ever seen. The object is more than 1300 times the diameter of our Sun and is also one million times b...
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No “Planet X” Found in WISE Data
For decades before Pluto, Eris, and other distant objects in our solar system were discovered, astronomers had posited that there must be another planet beyond Neptune that would m...
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Distant Black Hole Spin Measured by Astronomers
Astronomers this week revealed that the spin of a very distant black hole has been directly measured. The new measurement...
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Huge Weather Explosions Observed on Venus
Researchers this week announced that they have uncovered a striking phenomenon on the planet Venus. Using the European Spac...
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New Research Reveals Supernova Secrets
Supernovae seem easy enough to understand. Stars age, using up all of their fusion fuel and burst in a fiery display that helps to create the wide variety of elements seen through...
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Asteroid 2014: Cosmic Monster Missed Earth This Morning
A couple million miles may not sound like much of a “close call” with an aste...
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Yet Another Early-Universe Galaxy Has Been Spotted
Astronomers this week revealed that yet another galaxy from the very early universe has been spotted. The galaxy, dubbed Abell2744_Y1, is estimated to have existed just 650 mill...
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“Wobbly” Planet Spotted in Binary Star System
NASA this week revealed that the Kepler Space Telescope has spotted a planet with a very erratic orbit. The planet, named Kepl...
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