Meet Williamina Fleming, a 19th-century Scottish maid who became an astronomer
Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical ...
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Astronomers Find Four New Exoplanets Orbiting a Neighboring Star, the ‘White Whale’ of Planet Seekers
More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...
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Astronomers Discover 128 New Moons Orbiting Saturn, Cementing the Planet’s Title of ‘Moon King’
The sheer number of objects suggests scientists will soon have to grapple with what counts as a moon versus what’s just a ...
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Meet the Greek Astronomer Behind the First-Ever Black Hole Image
Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...
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Philadelphia astronomer says you don't want to miss rare "Blood Moon"
"People should be excited to view the total lunar eclipse this evening because it doesn't happen all that often," Derrick Pitts, the chief astronomer at The Franklin Institute Science Museum ...