stars
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A Real-Life Deluminator For Spotting Exoplanets By Reflected Starlight
Perhaps you remember the opening scene of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone that took place on Privet Drive. A bearded man pulled a mysterious device, called a deluminator, from his dark robe and one by one the lights from the street lamps flew into it.
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New Type Of Star System? Mysterious Radio Signal Puzzles Astronomers
After observing a part of the sky near the Southern Constellation of Ara for about two months using MeerKAT, a radio telescope based in the Karoo desert in South Africa, our team of scientists noticed something strange. The radio emission of an object brightened by a factor of three over roughly three weeks.
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Why Do Different Cultures See Such Similar Meanings In The Constellations?
Almost every person throughout the existence of humankind has looked up at the night sky and seen more than just a random scattering of light. Constellations of stars have helped us shape our own ongoing narratives and cultures ” creating meaning in the sky above that guides us in our life on the ground below.
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Freaky Star Seems To Dim Randomly, And Astronomers Don’t Know Why
What is going on with this strange, winking star?