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fromBig Think
1 day ago

Astronomers just found the most pristine star of all-time

The discovery of a pristine second-generation star enhances understanding of the Universe's evolution and the formation of subsequent star generations.
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fromTravel + Leisure
1 week ago

April Has 9 Rare Night Sky Wonders-Including Two Comets, a Meteor Shower, and a Moon Mission

April features significant astronomical events including the 'Pink' full moon, visibility of Mercury, a meteor shower, and a historic moon mission.
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fromFuturism
2 days ago

Astronomers Found Something Strange In Giant "Forbidden" Planet Nearly the Size of Its Star

TOI 5205b, a gas giant, challenges existing planet formation models due to its size relative to its host red dwarf star.
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fromMail Online
4 weeks ago

World's oldest map of the night sky is REVEALED after 2,000 years

Scientists use X-rays to reveal a 2,000-year-old star map by Hipparchus hidden beneath a medieval manuscript, recovering ancient astronomical coordinates with remarkable accuracy.
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fromwww.nature.com
1 month ago

Jam-packed star system is most compact of its kind ever found

A quadruple star system 584 parsecs from Earth features three closely packed stars orbited by a more distant fourth star in a complex gravitational arrangement.
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fromOpen Culture
1 month ago

An Animated Introduction to the Antikythera Mechanism: The World's First Analog Computer from Ancient Greece

The Antikythera Mechanism is a 2nd-century BCE geared analog device functioning as an ancient computer for modeling astronomical cycles and predicting celestial events.
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fromMail Online
1 month ago

Lost ancient Egyptian technology rewrites the dawn of civilization

Ancient Egyptians used a sophisticated rotary bow drill over 5,300 years ago, the earliest known metal drill, pushing back complex drilling technology by two millennia.
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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 months ago

Lost ancient Greek star catalog decoded by particle accelerator

Researchers decoded portions of Hipparchus's lost star catalog from a palimpsest using synchrotron imaging, revealing constellation names and measurements.
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Astronomers spot one of the largest spinning structures in the universe

The first time that University of Oxford astronomer Lyla Jung saw the cosmic configuration on her monitor, she almost didn't believe it was real. But it wasand Jung and her colleagues went on to identify one of the largest rotating structures ever found in space: a chain of galaxies embedded in a spinning cosmic filament 400 million light-years from Earth. The finding, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, may give astronomers new insights into galaxies' formation, evolution and diversity, Jung says.
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