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Astronomers Look Directly At HR8799e For First Time With Optical Interferometry
The exoplanet HR8799e isn’t a new discovery. It was first discovered in 2010 orbiting a young main-sequence star…
ESO’s Very Large Telescope Spots a Solar System in the Making
The aptly named telescope captured the first confirmed image of a planet coming together. A young dwarf star,…
Astronomers Discovered a Cold Spot on Jupiter That’s Been There For a Long Time
It’s big enough you could toss Earth in there and still have a little room. Located in the…
An Intensive Search of the Alpha Centauri System Will be Conducted in 2019
4.37 light-years away lies the Alpha Centauri system. What lurks near our closest stellar neighbor? A big announcement…
A Binary Star System Unlike Most
Meet AR Scorpii, a star system located about 380 light-years from Earth. It’s a binary star system made…
These Two Stars are Hot and Heavy
A binary black hole, or a single giant star. Those are the two options that await a pair…
The Incredible Pillars of Creation Look Even Better in 3-D
The Pillars of Creation is one of the most famous photographs ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.…
A Mars Ocean. New Research Suggests Ancient Mars Had a Lot of Water
We’ve known water was on Mars in the past, but how much exactly was there? Fresh NASA research…
Galactic Anomaly. Astronomers Spot An Ancient, Yet Evolved Galaxy
Peering deep into the cosmos with the Very Large Telescope’s X-shooter instrument, astronomers have observed one of the…
An Inevitable Supernova. Two Stars Get a Little Too Close
700 million years from now, two white dwarf stars will merge and create a massive supernova explosion.
This is the Very Large Telescope’s New Image of the ‘Mouth of the Beast’
Nearly 1,300 light years away from Earth lies CG4, better known as the ‘Mouth of the Beast’ and…
Exozodiacal Light. Astronomers Latest Challenge in Studying Exo-Earths
There’s a new headache for astronomers wanting to image Earth-like planets. Exozodiacal light. This phenomenon is similar to…