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Author: Astronomy Staff

Galaxies, Science

How can a galaxy be over 27 billion light-years from Earth if the universe is only about 13 billion years old?

Stars

How does a white dwarf consume planets?

Exotic Objects, Science

What are black holes?

Exoplanets

What’s the diameter of the largest exoplanet found so far?

Milky Way

How far from Earth would a space camera have to be to obtain a full image of our own Milky Way galaxy?

Science

Do constellations look the same from the other planets in the solar system?

Exotic Objects, Stars

In a supernova, why do we detect neutrinos before light?

Science

Since the Milky Way is a flat disk, it should appear as a straight line across the sky. However, in photos such as on pages 50–51 of the April issue, it is a curved arc. Why?

Robotic Spaceflight

What will happen to Hubble once the James Webb Space Telescope becomes operational?

Science

What percentage of extrasolar planets go counterclockwise around their suns?

Science

Saturn’s moons (Enceladus, for example) are heated by gravitational flexing. How does this process work?

Observing

Soak in the dog days of the Summer Triangle

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