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Scientists Just Moved Up the Date of a Rogue Star’s Visit And It Could Shake the Solar System
A star is heading toward the outskirts of our solar system, and it’s getting here sooner than expected.Gliese 710, a rogue ...
Researchers using the testbed interferometer at Palomar Observatory have achieved the best-ever distance measurement to a type of star known as a Cepheid variable. The new results improve the "cosmic ...
The North Star has been a guiding light for countless generations of navigators. But a new study reveals that its distance to Earth may have been grossly overestimated. In fact, the North Star—also ...
The Veil Nebula, a delicate network of glowing gaseous filaments in the northern constellation of Cygnus the Swan, has long been a favorite of both amateur and professional astronomers. Part of a much ...
The distance to one of the oldest star clusters has been precisely measured by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope for the first time. This measurement provides a more accurate and independent estimate ...
Astronomers have for the first time precisely measured the distance to one of the oldest objects in the universe, a collection of stars born shortly after the big bang. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble ...
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