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The photograph of the Milky Way was taken by Oisin McDonnell, who is based in South Australia. He shared the image in a ...

The supergiant star M31-2014-DS1, which has a mass 20 times greater than the sun and is located 2.5 million light-years away ...

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Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Every constellation has something within its borders worth tracking down, if you just look hard enough. Here are five to start with.

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS didn’t quite live up to the expectations of being the “comet of the century” and during November its brief appearance sees it rapidly fade from view as it speeds ... during the ...

NASA Hubble Space Telescope 5 mesmerising images of interacting galaxies captured by NASA James Webb Space Telescope 5 ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...