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undergo a supernova explosion in the near future. The results of this investigation are to be published in a research paper in The Astrophysical Journal on February 1. Rho Cassiopeiae is one of the ...

Submillimetre Telescope, FIRST, will be re-named the ‘Herschel Space Observatory’. This was announced this morning by ESA’s Director of Science, Roger Bonnet, during the opening of the FIRST ...

LONDON — Car crashes produce loud booms, but it is nothing compared to the shockwaves when two galaxies collide. That’s ...

A violent clash of galaxies has been caught in unprecedented detail by one of the most powerful telescopes based in La Palma, Spain. The collision was triggered by a rogue galaxy, hurtling through ...

Stephan's Quintet includes four distant galaxies that are connected through gravity and one galaxy that is much closer to us but just happens to lie in the same direction in the sky. Public domain via ...

Uranus, the seventh planet in our solar system, is often the butt of jokes due to its name. But did you know that this wasn't ...

An international team led by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL) has discovered one of the brightest "non-active" galaxies in the ...