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Unveiling Cloud-9: HiPERCAM's Dive Into Distant Cosmos
15+ hour, 33+ min ago (411+ words) Situated about 14–15 million light-years from Earth, Cloud-9’s mysterious nature intrigued Ignacio Trujillo’s team at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. Utilizing the 10.4-meter Gran Telescopio Canarias’ HiPERCAM, they embarked on an unprecedented quest, showcasing its ability to capture this…...
eROSITA's Second Data Release Catalog Delivering the Most Comprehensive High-Energy Census of the Cosmos to Date
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (219+ words) The eROSITA Consortium has issued the survey's second data release (DR2), nearly doubling the previously known eROSITA X-ray sources to two million....
LAGEOS-1, launched in 1976, has no power supply, communications equipment or moving parts: it is a 407-kilogram metal sphere covered with 426 reflectors that return laser pulses to Earth. Expected to remain in orbit for roughly 8.4 million years, it carries two copies of a plaque designed by Carl Sagan showing Earth’s continents in the distant past, at launch and at its predicted return—so whoever finds it can work out when it came from.
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (863+ words) LAGEOS-1 measures Earth without power or radio, while two Sagan-designed plaques inside use continental drift as a clock for a finder millions of years from now....
Cosmic Cumbria event to showcase astrophotography and space science at Rheged
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (178+ words) A celebration of cosmic wonders is set to light up the autumn calendar. The exhibition will showcase astronomical images from camera and astronomy clubs across Cumbria, including groups based in Penrith, Cockermouth, Kendal, and Furness. Visitors will also enjoy the…...
Cosmos Update - No Man's Sky
5+ day, 9+ min ago (1149+ words) Become director of a space station, join a galactic alliance, construct a space base and discover deep-space marvels in No Man's Sky Cosmos. Navigate space with a new star system map, strip colossal hulks for parts before hull integrity fails,…...
After 25 Years of Mapping Space, Scientists Built the Most Detailed Portrait of the Universe Yet And Opened It to Everyone
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (442+ words) A massive space release has arrived after decades of work, giving humanity a new window into the universe’s unexplored corners. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey started in 2000 as a project focused on mapping the Northern Hemisphere using the 2.5-meter Sloan…...
Radio Flashes from Deep Space Provide Caltech Scientists a New Way to Map the Universe
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (709+ words) Intense, brief flashes of radio light that travel across billions of light-years to reach Earth can be used to measure how ordinary matter is spread through the universe, according to a new study that researchers say could help solve some…...
4 Billion Cosmic Objects in a Browser Tab: The Legacy Survey Sky Viewer Opens to the Public
5+ day, 19+ hour ago (439+ words) DESI’s 13-year, 263,407-exposure survey is now publicly explorable as weak dark energy signals await 2027 confirmation Right now, in a browser tab, you can zoom through 75% of the sky across a 5.6-trillion-pixel image containing nearly 4 billion stars, galaxies, quasars, and asteroids. No…...
What’s Inside the New 5.6-Trillion-Pixel Map of the Sky—and How to Use It
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (432+ words) Astronomers have released the largest two-dimensional map of the universe yet assembled, combining 263,407 telescope exposures into a 5.6-trillion-pixel view of nearly 4 billion celestial objects. The map covers approximately 75% of the sky in visible and infrared wavelengths and is available for…...
Princeton collaborators celebrate start of observatory???s???ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our Universe
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (397+ words) After decades of planning and construction atop a mountain in Chile, the monumental NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially started a 10-year sky survey that will provide an “ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our Universe,” according to the…...