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On his first trip to the Grand Canyon Star Party, Dave Eicher joins thousands for a week of lectures, observing, and cosmic wonder.

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Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

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The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

Hawaii’s significant contribution to science, particularly those discoveries made through telescope installations on two ...

These are the first public images collected by the Chile-based observatory, which will begin a decade-long survey of the southern sky later this year.