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Three supermoons will light up 2025's calendar, with the largest occurring on November 5. These events include the Hunter's Moon on October 7, the Beaver Moon on November 5, and the Cold Moon on ...

Dec. 11, 2024 — Stunning new photographs by a team of astronomers have revealed a newly forming galaxy that looks remarkably similar to a young Milky Way. The extraordinary images give us an ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

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Since Galileo first observed them 400 years ago, Saturn's rings have become its defining feature and one of the most recognizable structures in the solar system. The Antennae Galaxies are teeming with ...

Sagittarius B2 has a diameter over 1,000 times the size of our solar system and is loaded up with 400 quintillion litres of ...