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In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...

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Astrophysical jets from black holes play a key role in cosmic evolution, impacting star formation and revealing insights ...

The Vatican Observatory’s summer school, known as “Specola,” has already selected students for its next edition in June.

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The image of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the center of massive elliptical galaxy M87, changed the world. It was the ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...

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Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.