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Artificial intelligence is now sorting through telescope data at a pace no human team could match, and the results go beyond efficiency gains. Machine learning classifiers have confirmed hundreds of ...

Astronomers have spotted two giant planets forming around a young star—offering a stunning glimpse of how our Solar System ...

Visible without a telescope, γ Cassiopeiae has stood out for decades because it behaves unlike an ordinary massive star. Its ...

Why doesn't Astronomy magazine recognize Messier 110? Keith LankfordHarvest, Alabama Amateur astronomers dubbed this object M110 in the 1960s, so we choose not to include it. Charles Messier's list ...

Stellar streams are trails of stars that astronomers can study to solve mysteries about the history of our Milky Way galaxy and, potentially, the dark matter that helps shape the cosmos despite ...

A University of Kansas researcher in physics and astronomy can now claim to be a star in her own right — at least within the annals of KU history. Postdoctoral researcher Hayley Beltz was announced ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed the full history of a galaxy outside the Milky Way using chemical clues. By analyzing oxygen across NGC 1365 and comparing it with simulations, they ...

Introduction to Astronomy is a college class usually filled with excitement and a lot of questions about outer space. Questions like: What are black holes? Are there planets out there that are ...

Pulsars are ultra-dense, rapidly spinning, and highly magnetized remnants of dead stars. They act like cosmic lighthouses, sending out regular pulses of radio waves and sometimes gamma rays in beams ...