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'Vega continues to be unusual:' Lack of planets around young star puzzles astronomers
A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega ...
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Comet not seen in almost 70 years to fly by Earth — here’s when
An astronomical unit is 284 million kilometers, the average distance between the Earth and the sun. Astronomers shared that ...
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Scientists discover mysterious structures hidden in our Solar System
an astronomical unit is a measurement of the average distance between Planet Earth and the Sun. The Kuiper Belt extends from the orbit of Neptune, which around 30 astronomical units from the Sun ...
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MIT says researchers have discovered first ‘black hole triple,’ reveals new data on how such objects are formed
Physicists at MIT and Caltech have discovered the first “black hole triple,” a formation more than 8,000 light years from Earth that experts say expands the current understanding of how black ...
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Comet sightings reported across Massachusetts on Tuesday night
IT’S ABOUT HALF AN ASTRONOMICAL UNIT, WHICH IS ABOUT 5060 MILLION MILES AWAY FROM THE EARTH. SO THAT’S ABOUT THE CLOSEST. IT’S COMING TO THE EARTH. EXPERTS SAY THE COMET IS PULLING AWAY FROM ...
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Here’s how long the comet will be visible in Southern California
One astronomical unit (abbreviated to 1 AU) corresponds to the average distance between the Earth and the sun and is equivalent to approximately 93 million miles. On Feb. 22, 2023, the Asteroid ...
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ASTRONOMICAL PLATES LOST AS SHIP IS SUNK
A major astronomical loss was suffered by the Harvard Observatory in 1944, Harlow Shapley, director of the Observatory and Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, revealed Sunday in his annual report.