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USA, the stars and astronomy??? from the revolution to beyond the Civil War, how America's history is intertwined with the Universe
4+ day, 23+ min ago (585+ words) The Star-Spangled Republic argues America's history can be told through the story of its astronomy Why does the American flag contain stars? Why do we call actors and sportspeople ‘stars’? Eran Shalev argues the answers lie in what he calls…...
Have we got our Galaxy completely wrong? Scientists just worked out it's much wider than they thought
1+ week, 1+ day ago (266+ words) Dust-cloud ‘light echoes’ allowed astronomers to pinpoint the distances to our Galaxy’s spiral arms The Milky Ways’s most distant spiral arms may extend significantly farther into space than previously believed, meaning fundamental models of our home Galaxy may need to…...
These are the closest black holes to Earth??? and there could be many more. Should we be worried?
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1370+ words) The closest black holes to Earth, how we know they're there and how astronomers go about searching for black holes The closest confirmed black hole to our Solar System lies roughly 1,560 lightyears away. It belongs to a binary system known…...