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There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for ...
For decades the reddish glow of Betelgeuse has puzzled astronomers, but researchers believe they have now found the reason ...
Scientists have long speculated that Betelgeuse, one of the brightest stars in the night sky, is not alone. Now, thanks to ...
More recently, astronomers have proposed a theory for its volatile nature, which explains the star's seemingly erratic ...
The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.
Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Gemini Observatory, European ...
Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...
Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National ...
The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt ...
Gemini Observatory/AURA . This multiple pointing, 3-band, near-infrared image, obtained with GeMS/GSAOI reveals remarkable, colorful details in NGC 4038, one of the components of the Antennae ...
The Gemini Observatory's star has been slow to rise. The publicly funded observatory boasts two of the world's largest telescopes, and offers a rare opportunity to watch both the northern and ...