Astrophysicists have always dreamed of running a simulation of the Milky Way that could track every single star—each orbit, ...

Reconstructing a 3D map Zhang and Green trained a neural network to generate model spectra based on a star's properties and the properties of the intervening dust. They compared the results to 130 ...

Simulating a billion years using previous best-resolution simulations would take almost 36 years of real computing time.

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — Up a winding road that cuts through the Allegheny Plateau, hundreds of amateur astronomers in campers and pickups stream into northern Pennsylvania each spring and summer in search ...

Bloomer: It is best to start with a little naked-eye astronomy: see if you can pick just something out at first, and build ...

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A new study suggests the disk was made to accurately represent the brightest stars at least 2,400 years ago, possibly as an aid for planting crops. But other experts are not convinced. When you ...

This week’s first small-telescope target is the gorgeous double star ADS 5951 in the constellation Canis Major. You’ll find this star 3° east of magnitude 3.0 Omicron2 (ο 2) Canis Majoris. The primary ...

Imagining familiar images in the sky has always been an easy way to track the annual progress of the stars. Around the second century C.E., the Greek astronomer Claudius Ptolemy listed 48 “official” ...

University of Southern Queensland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. There are few things more peaceful and relaxing than a night under the stars. Through the holidays, many people ...