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Astronomers Catch Rare Eclipse of a Double Brown Dwarf System
Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers working on “first light” data from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a chance discovery …
Distant Giant Planets Form Differently Than ‘Failed Stars’
Maunakea, Hawaii – A team of astronomers led by Brendan Bowler of The University of Texas at Austin has probed …
Astronomers Discover Unusual Monster Galaxy in the Very Early Universe
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers led by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, has found an …
Astronomers Detect Large Amounts of Oxygen in Ancient Star’s Atmosphere
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers from the University of California San Diego, the Instituto de Astrofísica de …
Astronomers Discover Class of Strange Objects Near Our Galaxy’s Enormous Black Hole
Maunakea, Hawaii – Astronomers from UCLA and W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered four more bizarre objects at the center …
Astronomers Spot Distant Galaxy Group Driving Ancient Cosmic Makeover
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international team of astronomers funded in part by NASA has found the farthest galaxy group identified …
The ‘Cores’ of Massive Galaxies Found to Have Formed A Billion Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
Maunakea, Hawaii – A distant galaxy more massive than our Milky Way — with more than a trillion stars — …
Unpredicted Stellar Black Hole Discovered
Maunakea, Hawaii – Our Milky Way Galaxy is estimated to contain 100 million stellar black holes – cosmic bodies formed …
NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa
Maunakea, Hawaii – Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter’s 79 …
Astronomers Catch Wind Rushing Out of Galaxy
Researchers Directly Observe for the First Time a Huge Outflow of Gas Extending Far Beyond a Galaxy Maunakea, Hawaii – …
A Crisis in Cosmology
Maunakea, Hawaii – A group of astronomers led by University of California, Davis has obtained new data that suggest the …
Massive Filaments Fuel the Growth of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes
Maunakea, Hawaii – An international group of scientists led by Hideki Umehata of the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research, a …
