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Finding new worlds with a play of light and shadow Astronomers have used many different methods to discover planets beyond the solar system, but the most successful by far is transit […]
See the return of the Andromeda Galaxy This picture of the Andromeda Galaxy, Messier 31, also shows its satellite galaxies, Messier 110 (top) and Messier 32 (lower right of […]
Celestial firework marks nearest galaxy impact An amazing galaxy collision has been detected lurking behind the Milky Way. The closest such system ever detected, the discovery was […]
Identikit of planetary systems The first two results had been published on A & A of the project GAPS - Global Architecture of Planetary Systems. Highly accurate […]