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Two Stars On A Death Spiral Set To Detonate As A Supernova
Two white dwarfs circle around one other, locked in a fatal tango. With an intimate orbit and a hefty combined mass, the pair is ultimately…
Rare Images of Red Sprites Captured at ESO
At the ESO's observatories located high in the Atacama Desert of Chile, amazing images of distant objects in the Universe are…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 366: HARPS Spectrograph
Almost all the planet hunting has been done from space. But there's a new instrument installed on the European Southern…
What Is This Empty Hole In Space?
What may appear at first glance to be an eerie, empty void in an otherwise star-filled scene is really a…
VLTI Detects Exozodiacal Light Around Exoplanets
If you've ever stood outside after twilight has passed, or a few hours before the sun rises at dawn, then…
Weekly Space Hangout – Sept. 26, 2014: So Wait, Do Black Holes Exist or Not?!?
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @cosmic_chatter) Alessondra Springmann (@sondy) Ramin Skibba (@raminskibba) Brian Koberlein (@briankoberlein) Jason…
ESO’s La Silla Observatory Reveals Beautiful Star Cluster “Laboratory”
Any human being knows the awe-inspiring wonder of a splash of stars against a dark backdrop. But it takes a…
Dazzling New Views of a Familiar Cluster
Wow. It’s always amazing to get new views of familiar sky targets. And you always know that a “feast for…
Keeping An Eye On Gaia
Gaia, ESA's long-anticipated mission to map the stars of our galaxy (as well as do a slew of other cool…
Astronomers Look “Inside” an Asteroid for the First Time
From directly inferring the inside of an asteroid for the first time, astronomers have discovered these space rocks can have…