Etymologically eccentric comes from Ptolemaic astronomy (The Greek ek means “outside of” and kentron means “center” or ...

Etymologically eccentric comes from Ptolemaic astronomy (The Greek ek means “outside of” and kentron means “center” or “centric”). A body with an eccentric orbit is one with an ...

Until we pointed the James Web Space telescope at our distant neighbor. Using Webb’s infrared instruments, astronomers spotted the first definitive evidence of auroras on Neptune, which they ...

“Euclid has already taken images of several times more sky than Hubble did in 25 years,” says Mike Walmsley, a machine learning researcher focused on astronomy, and Euclid Consortium ...

T Coronae Borealis has an outburst every 79 to 80 years, according to NASA. The once-in-a-lifetime explosion of T Coronae Borealis, also known as the "Blaze Star," is still pending -- but the ...

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have been watching a small constellation in the night sky, waiting for a nearby binary star system to explode. The wait may finally be over ...

Mar. 13, 2025 — Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's ...

Astronomers zoomed in on a stellar behemoth in the Larger Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that orbits about 160,000 light-years from the Milky Way. For a century, exoplanet hunters have “discovered ...

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