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Euclid has two instruments: its visible light camera, VIS, and its near-infrared light camera, NISP. NISP allows Euclid to ...

It's easy to get lost in a clear night sky full of stars. It can feel like a random mess of lights without a little guidance.

How do rogue planetary-mass objects, celestial bodies that fall between planets and stars in size, come into existence? An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University ...

One fan notices that you can spot real constellations in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and the North Star is actually aligned with North in the game. Now I'm not enough of an astro ...

As the solar system moved through this dust-rich region, Earth may have received an increased influx of interstellar particles.

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Learn about the stars and constellations ... 30 (see accompanying map). This year's theme: "Parading Through the Decades." KREWE OF ORION: 6:30 p.m., from the Raising Cane's River Center ...

The Winter Circle (or Winter Hexagon) isn’t a constellation. It is an asterism, made of bright stars in the winter evening ...