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Even when you remove the bright stars, the glowing dust and other nearby points of light from the inky, dark sky, a background glow remains. That glow comes from the cosmic sea of distant galaxies, ...

For the first time, astronomers have seen a star outside of the solar system bend the light from another star. The measurement, reported June 7 in Austin, Texas, at a meeting of the American ...

For the first time, a team of Japanese astronomers has captured clear images of jets and outflows from a young star forming in the far reaches of our Milky Way. Using the powerful Atacama Large ...