Category: Astronomy
Look deeper into the science of the stars. This section explores celestial events, cosmic phenomena, and the latest research that helps us understand how the universe came to be and where it’s headed.
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Machine learning flags rare quasar lenses, doubling top candidates in a new DESI study
Pleiades star cluster.
New study finds the Pleiades star cluster is part of a vast family spread across space
Moon reaches its farthest distance in 18 years! Rare Apogee aligns with November New Moon
A skydiver drifting across the face of the sun in Andrew McCarthy’s photograph "The Fall of Icarus," captured after months of planning and precision timing.
Skydiver appears to cross the Sun in a once-in-a-lifetime shot captured over Arizona
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JWST detects rare Phosphine gas in distant Brown Dwarf, solving a long unsolved mystery
The same transient seen in Pan-STARRS (top), MeerLICHT (middle), and ATLAS (bottom). Each row shows a new image, a reference image, and a difference image. All stamps are 100 × 100 pixels, but the sky area changes because the pixel scales differ: 0.25″, 0.56″, and 1.8″ per pixel, respectively.
AI model Gemini learns to spot real supernovae with only a handful of examples!
Image taken by the CaSSIS camera on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter shows a faint cluster of impact craters in the discoloured area at the base of the slopes. Follow-up images confirmed the impact and streak formation happened sometime between 2013 and 2017.
Meteoroid Impact on Apollinaris Mons Triggers 100 Dust Avalanches on Ancient Martian Volcano
A Still image of RAD J131346.9+500320.
Citizen Astronomers in India Help Discover the Most Distant and Powerful Radio Rings
(Artist's Concept) Quasi Moon 2025 PN7.
Astronomers Discover New ‘Quasi-Moon’ 2025 PN7 that will Orbit Near Earth Until the 2080s
(Artist's Concept) Asteroid 2025 SC79.
Astronomers Spot a Skyscraper-sized Asteroid 2025 SC79 Racing Around the Sun
