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Astronomers See the Same Supernova Four Times Thanks to a Gravitational Lens

Measuring cosmic distances is challenging, and astronomers rely on multiple methods and tools to do it – collectively referred...

Webb Sees Three Galaxy Clusters Coming Together to Form a Megacluster

As the successor to the venerable Hubble Space Telescope , one of the main duties of the James Webb...

The Mass of a Single Star (other than the Sun) has Been Directly Measured for the First Time

How do you measure an object’s weight from a distance? You could guess at its distance and therefore derive...

It’s Time for Mysterious Spokes to Appear in Saturn’s Rings

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured the appearance of several asymmetrical ‘spokes’ rising above the rings of Saturn, marking...

What it looks like when a black hole eats a star

-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email view in app Here is your periodic reminder that space is a vast,...

Hubble and Spitzer Team up to Find a Pair of Waterworld Exoplanets

As of December 19th, 2022, 5,227 extrasolar planets have been confirmed in 3,908 systems, with over 9,000 more awaiting...

Hubble Sees a Glittering Jewel in the Small Magellanic Cloud. But the Jewel is Disappearing

As far as we know, nobody lives in our neighbour, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC. ) So it’s okay...

A new Hubble Image Reveals a Shredded Star in a Nearby Galaxy

The Hubble Space Telescope, to which we owe our current estimates for the age of the universe and the...

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