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This Couple’s Stunning Documentaries Are Taking Space Dreams to Rural Kids in India

A complex, fascinating, and ever-evolving subject, astronomy encompasses mathematics and physical science, culture and history, myth and imagination, and more. It has been ...

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Massive Telescope Will Be Upgraded To Study The Nearest Exoplanets To Earth

One of the biggest space stories of 2016 was the discovery of the Earth-scale planet Proxima b in orbit around Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun. Located only 4...

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Tests Show We Could Build A Humongous Gravitational Wave Detector In Space

LISA Pathfinder is a super-nerdy (and super-exciting) mission to test the tech that will go into building a huge gravitational wave observatory affectionately known as LISA...

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Hubble Space Telescope Focuses On Lonely Dwarf Galaxy

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of UGC 4879, the most isolated dwarf galaxy in the periphery of the Local Group of Galaxies. UGC 4879,...

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Kepler Is Saved! How NASA Used Its Deep Space Network To Avert Catastrophe

It’s been a nail-biting few days for the planet-hunting community, after NASA announced late last week that its Kepler space telescope had unexpectedly switched to &l...

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How We Entered A New Era Of Astronomy

Last week, a new era of astronomy began as Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory executive director David Reitze stood before a packed room at the National Pr...

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How Astronomers Will Actually Image The Solar System's Ninth Planet

The minds of space nerds around the world collectively exploded yesterday, after astronomers announced that there is likely an undiscovered Neptune-sized planet in the oute...

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The Buddhist Monk Who Uses Space To Teach Spirituality

In a pitch black room, Ryo Kasuga talk?s space as a simulated solar system rotates above my head. Kasuga, however, is no astronomer. He?s a Buddhist monk intent on using th...

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Researchers Use Hubble Telescope to Reveal Cloudy Weather On Alien World

A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Chicago report they have definitively characterized the atmosph...

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