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Exoplanets, Science

50-year-old planet-hunting method nabs its first planet

World’s largest solar telescope now operational

Exotic Objects, Science

Ghost remains after black hole eruption

Galaxies, Science, Stars

An exploding star in an “exploding galaxy”

Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

New International Space Station crew launches from Kazakhstan

Exotic Objects, Science

XMM-Newton takes astronomers to a black hole’s edge

Most efficient spectrograph to shoot the southern skies

Ask Astro web extra: Why does the Moon look so large sometimes as it rises on the horizon?

Is it possible to combine digitized observations of an object from widely separated telescopes, creating a virtual interferometer?

Is there an equivalent to the North Star in the Southern Hemisphere?

How much water covered Mars’ surface, and which areas had the most water? Why did it disappear?

Human Spaceflight, Space Exploration

NASA’s space shuttle returns to Earth after Hubble mission