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A nova called T Coronae Borealis spectacularly erupts every 80 years. Your only chance to see it will come any day now

Bradley Schaefer says that previous eruptions made it possible to understand that T CrB behaves in a “unique” way in the process before and after its

If predictions are correct, key outburst star T Coronae Borealis could put on a show in early 2024.

When the Apollo 11 landing module detached and sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin hurtling toward the surface of the moon, Michael Collins began a journey of his own. For the next 21 hours,...

Professor: What really happened out of Apollo 11? Buzz Aldrin: An amazing thing, even though we have always known of this possibility. The fact is that they (aliens) have ordered us to...

Ollaborative effort between professional and amateur astronomers has led to the discovery of a massive collision between two ice giant planets in a distant star system.

Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2023 - Astronomers found what looks like a glowing cloud of dust from a massive planetary pile-up-and NASA volunteers helped make the discovery! A recent paper in Nature describes how an international grou

Planets grow in rotating disks of dust and gas around forming stars, some of which can subsequently collide in giant impacts after the gas component is removed from the disk1–3. Monitoring programmes with the warm Spitzer mission have recorded substantial and rapid changes in mid-infrared output for several stars, interpreted as variations in the surface area of warm, dusty material ejected by planetary-scale collisions and heated by the central star: for example, NGC 2354–ID8 (refs....

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Who is the greatest astronomer of all time? No astronomer can be deemed the best, but here are some of the most famous names in the history of astronomy.