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Astronomy & Observing News

When Galaxies Collide

Images from the Spitzer Space Telescope and GALEX make it possible for scientists to imagine what the Milky Way-Andromeda crash might look like five billion years from now.

Astronomy & Observing News

More Ado about the Cas A Supernova

Legend has it that a bright noon star graced the birth of the 17th century British Monarch Charles II. Could it have been a daytime glimpse of the Cas A supernova?

Solar System

Dissecting Saturn's Big Storm

Scientists have combined images from Cassini and big telescopic eyes in Chile to understand Saturn's massive storm in ways never before possible.

Space Missions

Gravity Probe B: Relatively Important?

It took five decades and $750 million for the Gravity Probe B mission to check, once again, that Einstein’s theory of general relativity is right. Was it worth it?

Exoplanets

The Hottest, Densest Super-Earth Yet

Two research teams combine forces to study the wildest exoplanet yet identified.

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