In each of two previous posts, here and here, I listed 10 great facts about our daytime star. Well, if that wasn’t enough Sun ...
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Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported on the unveiling of Schmidt ...
Jupiter officially reaches opposition at 4 A.M. EST, and its moon Callisto is helping us usher in the big moment with a transit — moving simultaneously with its shadow across the face of the gas giant ...
A recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters has provided the most precise distance to the Coma Cluster of galaxies yet — and also has deepened a crisis in cosmology. The problem is ...
It’s not inaccurate to think of the heavens as a clockwork apparatus above our head. We use our planet’s spin to mark a day and its orbit around the sun to mark a year. That annual orbital reckoning ...
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware is a vibrant hub of scientific inquiry, encompassing a diverse range of research areas that push the boundaries of human ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang. When you purchase ...
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"Dark matter can be red hot when it is born, but still have time to cool down before galaxies begin to form." ...