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yesterday

Astronomers Publish Largest Two‑Dimensional Sky Map with 5.6 Trillion Pixels

The public dataset will serve as a shared imaging foundation for searches for gravitational lenses, for transient events, for follow-up spectroscopic tests of dark energy.

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yesterday

Hubble Study Finds Andromeda’s Star Formation Has Fell to a Fraction of Its Former Rate

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3w ago

Simulations Suggest Milky Way Disk Flipped After Ancient 'Gaia Sausage' Collision

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3w ago

Astronomers Identify Candidate Binary Supernova Pair Near Jellyfish Nebula

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4w ago

Hubble and Webb Pin Down First Stellar Black Hole in Omega Centauri

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4w ago

Astronomers Detect First True Sugar in Interstellar Space

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4w ago

Scientists Detect First Sugar in Interstellar Space

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4w ago

Webb Sees Gas Filaments Feed Black Hole’s Rotating Nuclear Disk

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last mo.

Webb Reveals Dust-Shrouded Heart of Centaurus A

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last mo.

Euclid Finds 31 Primordial Quasars, Including Two New Distance Records

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last mo.

X‑Ray Echoes Show Two Outer Milky Way Arms About 10% Farther Than Thought

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last mo.

Euclid Doubles Known Early Quasars and Reveals Objects from 670 Million Years After the Big Bang

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last mo.

ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Releases 29-Image Shortlist

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last mo.

NASA Paints Four Cosmic Targets Red, White and Blue for America’s 250th

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last mo.

Hubble Releases New Images That Map Young Stars and Ancient Clusters

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last mo.

TESS Detects First Planet by Gravitational Microlensing

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last mo.

Rubin Observatory Begins 10‑Year Survey of the Southern Sky

Galaxies

Astronomers Publish Largest Two‑Dimensional Sky Map with 5.6 Trillion Pixels

Webb Detects Water and Silicate Dust in Star Beside Milky Way’s Black Hole

Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Seen Shredding Star in Galaxy Outskirts

AI Flagged a Wandering Supermassive Black Hole Tearing Apart a Star

Hubble Study Finds Andromeda’s Star Formation Has Fell to a Fraction of Its Former Rate

Simulations Suggest Milky Way Disk Flipped After Ancient 'Gaia Sausage' Collision

Astronomers Identify Candidate Binary Supernova Pair Near Jellyfish Nebula

Hubble and Webb Pin Down First Stellar Black Hole in Omega Centauri

Astronomers Detect First True Sugar in Interstellar Space

Scientists Detect First Sugar in Interstellar Space

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Webb Sees Gas Filaments Feed Black Hole’s Rotating Nuclear Disk

Webb Reveals Dust-Shrouded Heart of Centaurus A

Euclid Finds 31 Primordial Quasars, Including Two New Distance Records

X‑Ray Echoes Show Two Outer Milky Way Arms About 10% Farther Than Thought

Euclid Doubles Known Early Quasars and Reveals Objects from 670 Million Years After the Big Bang

ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Releases 29-Image Shortlist

NASA Paints Four Cosmic Targets Red, White and Blue for America’s 250th

Hubble Releases New Images That Map Young Stars and Ancient Clusters

TESS Detects First Planet by Gravitational Microlensing

Rubin Observatory Begins 10‑Year Survey of the Southern Sky

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