The Vera C. Rubin Observatory discovered the dwarf galaxy Aquarius IV and the star cluster Rubin-GC1 in preliminary ...

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has already uncovered two previously unknown companions of the Milky Way using preliminary observations covering just 7% of the night sky. The discoveries include an ...

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Simulations suggest the faintest galaxies near the Milky Way share one iron level because a single giant first star exploded in each.

A skymap of stars in the Milky Way and its environment, using data from the Gaia satellite. The area of sky observed by Rubin during a test run is ...

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Our cosmic neighbourhood is full of surprises, some you cannot even imagine. In a paper published on Monday in The ...

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The Swift Observatory allowed astronomers to study events that happen quickly in the universe, such as stars exploding.