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Scientists are turning data into sound to listen to the whispers of the universe (and more)
CSIRO , Author provided Jeffrey Cooke, Swinburne University of Technology We often think of astronomy as a visual…
Combined power of two telescopes is helping crack the mystery of eerie rings in the sky
Some of the MeerKAT’s 64 dishes, which astronomers use to collect huge amounts of data. © South African…
There’s a Radio Signal Coming From Within the Milky Way—And It Repeats Every 18 Minutes
It’s no surprise to us that the universe is quite literally full of surprises. After all, the wider…
Astronomers May Have Just Found the First “Extragalactic” Exoplanet
In the search for worlds like—or, more often than not, very much unlike—our own, astronomers have looked to…
Astronomers Found a 3,000-Light-Year-Long “Splinter” in a Milky Way “Arm”
It has taken centuries for our understanding about our place in the universe to reach this point of…
How Two Astronomers With Some Markers Linked Us To the Stars
A very spirited Carl Sagan once said in one of the episodes of his 1980 TV miniseries Cosmos:…