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Stellar Sextants: Charting the Course of Celestial Bodies thumbnail

Stellar Sextants: Charting the Course of Celestial Bodies

Galaxy NGC 3156 captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Sharples, S. Kaviraj, W. KeelThis dream-like Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the galaxy known as NGC 3156. It is a lenticular galaxy, meaning that it falls somewhere between an elliptical and a spiral galaxy. It lies about 73
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Stellar demolition derby generates powerful gamma-ray burst thumbnail

Stellar demolition derby generates powerful gamma-ray burst

While searching for the origins of a powerful gamma-ray burst (GRB), an international team of astrophysicists may have stumbled upon a new way stars might be destroyed. Although most GRBs originate from exploding massive stars or neutron-star mergers, the researchers concluded that GRB 191019A instead came from the collision of stars or stellar remnants in
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STELLAR WORKS and SONY PRESENT ‘STAYDREAM – A SURREAL REALITY’ FOR NYCxDESIGN 2023 thumbnail

STELLAR WORKS and SONY PRESENT ‘STAYDREAM – A SURREAL REALITY’ FOR NYCxDESIGN 2023

Stellar Works and Sony’s Creative Center have collaborated in creating ‘STAYDREAM –­ a surreal reality’, which will be staged during NYCxDESIGN 2023 (18-25 May). This conceptual presentation aims to communicate and reveal new forms of user experience, innovative sensing, and interactive engagement, exploring the coexistence of physical and meta realities. A series of conceptual pieces
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12 Stellar Streams Within Our Galactic Halo: The Milky Way’s Feeding Habits Shine a Light on Dark Matter thumbnail

12 Stellar Streams Within Our Galactic Halo: The Milky Way’s Feeding Habits Shine a Light on Dark Matter

Artist’s representation of our Milky Way Galaxy surrounded by dozens of stellar streams. These streams were the companion satellite galaxies or globular clusters that are now being torn apart by our Galaxy’s gravity. Credit: James Josephides and S5 Collaboration Astronomers are one step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way…
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