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Visual observers and astrophotographers alike can find something amazing to observe along the plane of our galaxy.

The planet 51 Pegasi b is a long way from Prior Lake, 48 light years (several billion miles) to be exact. It orbits a fifth magnitude star, similar to our Sun, in the constellation Pegasus. It was ...

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NASA's SPHEREx mission, set to launch in February 2025, will utilize an advanced infrared telescope to map the entire sky in 102 colors. This affordab ...

Located 2.5 million light-years from Earth, this galaxy is one among the closest to the Milky Way. The data collected ... than our Sun under an outstanding magnitude of resolution for details.

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The ultimate in such bejeweled arrays are the open star clusters, composed of dozens of stars which are to be found sprinkled along the wintertime Milky Way and whose members glitter far more ...

Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram ...