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October 05, 2018

Sky Rivers: Streams of Stars Reveal the Galaxy’s Violent History, Science

Long-exposure image of star trails (sky motion) above desert inversion layers and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (a part of AURA) in Chile Atmospheric refraction plays with the light of any object on the horizon. Here the startrails display immense distortion and mirage as the light rays are refracted and bent in the atmosphere

September 24, 2018

Gaia Data Releases Spark Open-Access Success By Thomas Sumner

Scientists projected data collected by the Gaia spacecraft onto the dome of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium in New York City

September 17, 2018

Hack Weeks Gaining Ground in the Earth and Space Sciences, Earth & Space Science News

3d rendering network and data exchange over planet earth in space

August 31, 2018

The New Science of Seeing Around Corners, Quanta Magazine

Digital illustration of a man and rabbit running in a maze toward each other at different sides of a corner

August 06, 2018

Next to Its Solar Twins, the Sun Stands Out (Science News)

A composite image of the Sun where each slice gives a view of the Sun in a different wavelength of light

June 14, 2018

A New and Improved Way To Find Baby Planets, Carnegie Institution for Science

An artist’s impression of protoplanets forming around a young star

April 26, 2018

You Are Here: Scientists Unveil Precise Map Of More Than A Billion Stars, NPR

Image of networks of stars in the night sky, showing parallax and proper motion on the sky

April 26, 2018

The Milky Way, Revealed as Never Before, Scientific American

A graphical representation of Gaia’s all-sky data on the Milky Way and neighboring galaxies, based on measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars. The map shows the total brightness and color of stars observed by the ESA satellite in each portion of the sky between July 2014 and May 2016