Astronomer’s paradise or a light pollution hell? We reposition our Solar System to find out
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Space Exploration
Kepler retires from exoplanet-hunting duties
The space telescope has ran out of the fuel needed to advance on its already-impressive nine years of service
Deep Space
Gaia identifies intruding stars from other galaxies
Astronomers found hypervelocity stars racing toward the galactic centre, inferring they could have come from other galaxies
Space Exploration
Heroes of Space: Svetlana K Savitskaya
Savitskaya paved the way for female cosmonauts
Astronomy
What is absolute and apparent magnitude?
How do we measure the brightness of objects in the night sky?
Astronomy
What do the letters of stellar classification stand for?
O, B, A, F and so on… What do they all mean?
Deep Space
What gives a star its colour?
Find out why stars come in different colours
Deep Space
New model explains how we see a black hole devour a star
Researchers have come up with a theory explaining why we see different radiation from the same star-destroying event
Deep Space
Why do stars exist?
Stars are a fundamental part to our universe, but what purpose do they serve?
Astronomy
Are all the constellations made of stars in our own galaxy?
Where are the stars in various constellations located?
Astronomy
Galaxies swell up as they age
Analysis of over 800 galaxies shows that there is a relationship between a galaxy’s age and size
Deep Space
Zombie star feeds off its companion
ESA’s Integral space observatory spotted X-rays emitted from a unusual binary star system
Astronomy
Astronomer proposes new definition of a planet
By adding these new constraints, astronomers should be able to differentiate between a large planet and a brown dwarf
Deep Space
Exoplanets found to orbit iron-rich stars tightly
A new study has shown that alien worlds tend to have shorter orbital periods when swinging around their metal-rich stellar parents
Deep Space
James Webb Space Telescope will hunt down brown dwarfs
Astronomers hope to understand the elusive object that forms a bridge between stars and planets
Deep Space
Astronomers discover Earth-sized planet just 11 light years away
The newly-discovered exoplanet shows promising signs for habitability
Deep Space
Astronomers detect gravitational waves from merging neutron stars for first time
Before now, the ripples in space-time had only been detected from black-hole mergers
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Astronomy
Giant telescope array captures ageing star blowing smoky bubble
Astronomers have used ALMA to capture a strikingly beautiful view of a delicate bubble of expelled material around the exotic red star U Antliae
Deep Space
Astronomers find never-before-seen regions of star formation in our galaxy
A research team has discovered new evidence of stars forming in the Milky Way