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The twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory mark 25 years of discovery as students name distant nebula Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lan. The ...

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New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

When a meteor streaks across the sky, it's not just beautiful. It's nature's way of delivering a time capsule to Earth. Contained within are hints about the very beginning of the solar system and how ...