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"We pushed our detection limit down to the brown dwarfs of the cluster, which are the smallest stars that can form!" ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets on the outer edge of ...

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NASA's Roman Space Telescope has received its Optical Telescope Assembly, paving the way for its mission to explore the ...

Ever since William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, astronomers have been eager to find new planets ... telescope would have a slightly different vantage point, occultations would be seen ...

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For thousands of years, gazing upward was how astronomers studied the sky above. On a clear night, several planets in our solar system were visible without a telescope. However, as telescopes ...