Author: Chris Syrg

[caption id="attachment_74389" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Dispersed Matter Planet Project target selection area. Credit: The Open University[/caption] Three OU astronomers today announced groundbreaking discoveries allowing scientists to understand planets outside the solar...

[caption id="attachment_74373" align="aligncenter" width="462"] Giant cavities in the X-ray emitting intracluster medium (shown in blue, as observed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory) have been carved out by a black hole...

[caption id="attachment_74370" align="aligncenter" width="604"] China's Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST). Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[/caption] Based on the first data release (DR1)...