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- Astronomy - Science News
Astronomy A gas cloud 5,500 times as massive as the sun lurks nearby At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single
- Astronomy - National Air and Space Museum
Astronomy is a branch of science that researches everything in the universe beyond our Earth's atmosphere This includes things like other planets in our solar system, moons, stars, and even distant galaxies and black holes
- Astronomy Program - National Air and Space Museum
Join educators from the National Air and Space Museum as we explore our dynamic solar system in a live, interactive planetarium show
- Citizen scientists make cosmic discoveries with a global telescope network
On balconies and in backyards, Wi-Fi–enabled telescopes are connecting astronomy enthusiasts across six continents
- Astronomers see the astrosphere of a sunlike star for the first time
Finding a bubble of hot gas blown by the stellar wind from a young star gives researchers a peek at what our sun was like when it was young
- Using AI, historians track how astronomy ideas spread in the 16th century
A new AI machine learning technique helped historians analyze 76,000 pages from astronomy textbooks spanning nearly two centuries
- Who is the Man Who Discovered the Universe? - National Air and Space Museum
The discovery led to the realization that the universe is expanding, and that it must have had a beginning: the Big Bang “Hubble is known as a titan in astronomy, especially American astronomy,” says Samantha Thompson, the Phoebe Waterman Haas Astronomy Curator at the National Air and Space Museum
- Discovering Our Universe - National Air and Space Museum
Modern astronomy began with the invention of the telescope just over 400 years ago With this new tool, Galileo showed that there is more in the universe than discernible with our eyes alone Today, astronomers use instruments that can capture light beyond the visible, enabling them to observe even more—from black holes colliding to the beginning of the universe
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