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Following the teaching session, the astrophotographers disappeared into the darkness, each selecting a unique observation point in the heart of the Gobi Desert. There, they captured stunning panoramas ...

Rolling hills covered in a patchwork of juniper and pine create waves of green that flow toward distant mountain ranges rendered in watercolor blues by the atmosphere itself. What makes this ...

The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, chaotic bundles of turbulent gas, churned up by huge gulps of intergalactic gas, ...

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A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

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