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Astronomical Discoveries

Gamma-Ray Bursts Dark Matter Stellar Nursery Transient Events William Herschel Black Hole Observations Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Black Hole Evidence Cataclysmic Events

Dark Energy Camera Reveals Vast Halo and Stellar Stream Around Sombrero Galaxy

The ultra-deep view points to a past merger that shaped the galaxy.

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Royal Astronomical Society Awards Gold Medal to Shrinivas Kulkarni

Hubble Confirms First Starless Dark-Matter Cloud, ‘Cloud-9,’ a Predicted RELHIC

Hubble Telescope Reveals Stunning Spiral Galaxy NGC 5643 and Its Hidden X-Ray Mystery

Webb Telescope Unveils Secrets of Star Formation in Triangulum Galaxy