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What the world’s largest liquid mirror telescope means for astronomy

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope, perched high in the Himalayas, has finally started making observations. If it succeeds, we could one day put a much larger liquid telescope on the moon

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Tidal disruption

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Star ripped up by black hole is one of the brightest things ever seen

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Bluewalker 3 satellite is brighter than 99.8 per cent of visible stars

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Caroline Herschel's pioneering astronomy is brought into the spotlight

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Caroline Herschel's pioneering astronomy is brought into the spotlight

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Abell 370 picture

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Astronomers saw a distant supernova less than 6 hours after it blew up

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H63XG9 The Hyades open star cluster in Taurus with the bright star Aldebaran, not a part of the cluster iteslf. The smaller and more di

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How to spot the Hyades, the closest star cluster to Earth

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Gamma Columbae

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An incredibly bright star has lost its gas and is just a leftover core

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Why Mars has captured our hopes and fears for millennia

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Why Mars has captured our hopes and fears for millennia

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Researchers at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory are nearly done with the LSST Camera, the world's largest digital camera ever built for astronomy. Roughly the size of a small car and weighing in at three tons, the camera features a five-foot wide front lens and a 3,200 megapixel sensor that will be cooled to -100??C to reduce noise. Once complete and in place atop the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope in Chile, the camera will survey the southern night sky for a decade, creating a trove of data that scientists will pore over to better understand some of the universe's biggest mysteries, including the nature of dark energy and dark matter. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

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Astronomers have unveiled the world’s largest digital camera

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Fully deployed Webb telescope. Artist concept. The James Webb Space Telescope.

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The extraordinary JWST is named for James Webb, whose legacy I deplore

James Webb's legacy was to stand for a status quo where queer Black people like me could never have a home in the NASA community. Naming the incredible new telescope after him has come to represent the contradictions of my job, says Chanda Prescod-Weinsten

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Lightest neutron star ever found could contain compressed quarks

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Astronomers have just watched the most powerful explosion ever seen

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Astronomers have unveiled the world’s largest digital camera

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JWST has spotted bizarre rings of dust around a dying star

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