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A British winemaker and amateur astronomer has created in Chile a unique variety of wine, a concoction that, according to its designer, brings to Earth the flavor of the Universe.
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Photographed by an amateur astronomer, a large cloud engulfing a region on Mars has experts amazed in this never-before-seen event.
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German astronomers have discovered a planetary system deemed a survivor of the very early universe. The ancient system is an astonishing 13 billion years old, and raises the question of how such early stars and planets might have formed.
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When a Time magazine reader asked astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to share "the most astounding fact about the Universe," he answered in a video. The vividly illustrated presentation has gone viral, receiving hundreds of thousands of hits.
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Police and astronomical organisations have been inundated with calls from across the UK on Saturday night after a large fireball raced across the night sky.
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After experiencing a disruptive solar flare earlier this year, people are more aware of the sun's power. However, a bigger, more destructive solar storm might be in our immediate future.
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After experiencing a disruptive solar flare earlier this year, people are more aware of the sun's power. However, a bigger, more destructive solar storm might be in our immediate future.
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The European Space Agency announced its fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle has been named Georges Lemaître, after the Belgian scientist who provided the first observational estimation of the Hubble constant, which was later called the Big Bang theory.
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A team of astronomers at the University of Helsinki in Finland, headed by Mikael Granvik, have run computer simulations determining that Earth has more than one moon...kind of. Thousands of tiny asteroids, pulled into Earth's orbit, have been found.
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Dr. Greg Parker, an amateur astronomer in New Forest in southern England, tracked the sun's trails over his garden from the summer to winter solstices with a pin-hole camera he constructed from an empty tea box.
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 Astronomy enthusiasts are gearing up for a dazzling planetary conjunction this week during which Jupiter and Venus will appear to be side by side.
A campaign is being launched to take astronomy to Afghan children, drawing on the rich astronomical heritage of Islam.
Cinthya Herrera, 27, gets her astronomy career off to a flying start by producing the first scholarly science paper to come out of the Alma radio telescope.
Colin Littlefield says he has never taken a college physics course. He likes astronomy but plans to make a career as a civil rights lawyer. So he may be the only law student in America to publish a research paper in The Astronomical Journal. He’s...
Astronomers have spotted an object only 3,200 feet across, orbiting the sun 4.2 billion miles away. It's probably pretty unremarkable. There are probably countless balls of ice and rock much like it, out in the Kuiper Belt beyond the named...
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NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy has completed the second segment of flight tests with its telescope door open to prepare the observatory for first mission.
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