Meteor showers, a celestial marathon and more will dazzle the night sky in April
Skygazers can enjoy meteor showers and other dazzling displays in the night sky all month long, according to astronomers.
5 Dazzling Stargazing Destinations within Driving Distance from Major U.S. Cities
Check the schedule to time your night visit to one of the Dark Sky events, which are held the night before a New Moon.
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Gaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to 'the discovery machine of the decade' that mapped 2 billion Milky Way stars
After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
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Insight from one of Milky Way's most extreme environments
In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.
Gases structures key in enabling stars’ formation: Milky Way’s cold gas clouds mapped in unprecedented detail
Gupta explained that hydrogen atoms may eventually transform into molecular gas, the basic fuel for the formation of stars.
Webb explores effect of strong magnetic fields on star formation
Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...
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Sagittarius C: Webb provides closest look yet at one of Milky Way's most extreme environments
Sagittarius C is one of the most extreme environments in the Milky Way galaxy. This cloudy region of space sits about 200 ...
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Is the Universe inside a Black Hole?
The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...
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Bidding Farewell to Gaia: The Telescope That Recharted the Stars
The European Space Agency has retired its groundbreaking Gaia Spacecraft due to the depletion of its cold gas propellant.
Our Galaxy May Have Once Had a Second Central Black Hole
The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...
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Hubble Telescope captures gorgeous new view of Milky Way's star-packed galactic neighbor (photo)
Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...
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The most successful space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...