One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble settled astronomy's 'Great Debate'
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
On this date: Noted Saturn observer, moon discoverer dies
On this date, Jan. 29, 1859, American astronomer William Cranch Bond died. Cranch and his son, George Phillps Bond, ...
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Astronomers watch monster black hole spit out a light-year-long jet
Astronomers have witnessed a monster supermassive black hole erupting with a light-year-long jet traveling at one-third the ...
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 ...
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Check Out the Hubble Space Telescope’s Stunning New View of the Andromeda Galaxy
The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...
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Astronomers find the most distant supernova yet
Last week at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland, astronomers presented some of their most recent and exciting finds from the James Webb Space ...
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A young star may soon disappear: Inside the great dimming of T Tauri
One of the most notable baby stars in the galaxy, T Tauri, could be about to vanish from sight for decades as a thick, ...
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'It was very fortunate timing': Astronomers watch 1st black hole to 'shut off' blast back to life
The first black hole that astronomers observed "turning off" just turned back on, releasing jets of hot gas into the cosmos.
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American Astronomical Society honors four UC Santa Cruz affiliates at national meeting
At this week's AAS national meeting, the society named UC Observatories Director Bruce Macintosh and two alumni, Laura Lopez ...