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The James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered dazzling newborn stars and thick cosmic dust in Sagittarius B2, the Milky Way's ...

When you think of telescopes in space, you probably think of the Hubble Space Telescope and its younger, larger sibling, the ...

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With such extraordinary potential for our international standing in astronomy, the cost of ESO membership seems like a ...

SpIRIT, Australia’s first astronomy nanosatellite has completed its commissioning phase. This satellite will detect gamma-ray ...

The astronaut heard the noise during a mission in 2003, a sound that could not be explained at the time, and neither had it ...

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