Keck observatory
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Amateur astronomers have made some pretty amazing observations in the past. Now, an Argentinian amateur astronomer named Victor Buso is thanking his lucky stars, after capturing on camera the very moment a star went supernova.
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At the end of its life, a star goes supernova, ejecting its outer layers in a huge cosmic cataclysm. Thousands of these events have been observed over decades, but now one star has somehow exploded several times over 60 years. The find may challenge everything we know about the death of stars.
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An international team of astronomers has released an enormous dataset detailing the characteristics of over 1,600 "neighborhood" stars, in an effort to involve the public in the ongoing effort to discover nearby exoplanets.
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Scientists working at the Keck observatory have spied an exoplanet of a type never seen before. Residing in the constellation of Taurus, some 450 light-years from Earth, the distant body is the first planet ever observed being formed.
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NASA scientist's say that they have estimated that Mars may once have had enough water to form a vast body the size of the Arctic Ocean surrounding its north pole, where only plains remain.
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Confirming a long-held theory that a rare supernova originated in a binary star arrangement, observations by the Hubble space telescope verify that the companion star precipitated the destruction of the aging primary star by drawing off mass until its core collapsed and triggered a supernova event.