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Point guard Courtney Vandersloot set the WNBA record for highest assist average for a season (8.1), while Allie Quigley made her first All-Star team and won the league's 3-point contest. She was joined at the All-Star festivities by Stefanie Dolson, who came over from Washington in the Delle Donne trade.

Through a quirk of nature called “gravitational lensing,” it allowed the Hubble telescope to use distant galaxies like a cosmic magnifying glass to see what's beyond. NASA says the star is so far away, it has taken 9 billion years for its light to reach Earth. They named the star “Icarus,” after the Greek ...

A group of astronomers led by a researcher at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff found a rare yellow supergiant. The star was located in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Since it was seen speeding across the galaxy at 300,000 miles per hour, researcher Kathryn Neugent believes it is a runaway. "Stars in the ...

According to a report published by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble, the star is so far away its light has taken 9 ... in 2020 NASA will launch Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, a more powerful observatory that will find other distant stars like this one.

Older galaxies have been spotted but their individual stars have been indiscernible. The scientists took advantage of a phenomenon called "gravitational lensing" to spot the star. It involves the bending of light by massive galaxy clusters in the line of sight, which magnifies more distant celestial objects.

We know because that's a photo of a what a star looked like nine billion years taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The star pointed to in the bottom right frame is an enormous blue one called Icarus, and it's the farthest individual star ever seen. Its official name is MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1, and a team from the ...

The initial construction contract of just under $3 million has been enlarged to account for modifications and did not include a separate cost of about $225,000 for the telescope and another roughly $150,000 for the dome, Eckenroth said. The observatory was funded completely with city money.

So faint are the stars that comprise this star pattern, we might refer to Cancer as an empty space in the sky. Because it contains no star brighter ... Although the telescope was just coming into general use during Hevelius' time, he openly abandoned this relatively new invention. In his star atlas, he tucked a ...

"The galaxies are ablaze with dazzling regions of star formation: The bright blue fireworks are stellar nurseries, churning out hot infant stars," officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) wrote in a description of the image Thursday (March 8). (The Hubble project is a collaboration between NASA and ...

My name for it is “Orion and His Gang” because the constellations that surround the great hunter with his star-studded belt are nearly as dazzling as ... To really see it, you have to be out in the countryside, and even then it's a stretch of your eyesight and especially your imagination to see the celestial rabbit.

A space rock slammed into Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Northwest on Wednesday night (March 7), putting on a brief but brilliant sky show, according to media reports. The fireball ... Meteor showers can be awesome night sky sights, but how well do you know your shooting star facts? Find out here ...

Maggie Hennessy has a new love and its name is S.K.Y. Chef Stephen Gillanders “wows with craveable, Asian-inflected dishes,” such as golden fried chicken that's been “imbued with garlic and Korean chili flake.” It's presented on a bed of sweet creamed corn with housemade hot sauce and the result is a ...

Today's study, led by Kevin Stovall (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), goes to show that these surveys are doing a great job so far! Yet another double-neutron-star binary, PSR J1946+2052, has now been discovered as part of the Arecibo L-Band Feed Array pulsar (PALFA) survey. This one is ...

It all began when data taken by NASA's Kepler spacecraft revealed that a white dwarf named KIC 08626021, the “corpse” of a star not unlike the sun, was ... Dedicated in 1969 and named after Bart Bok, who was director of the UA's Steward Observatory at the time, the Bok Telescope has pointed its 90-inch ...

In the early stages of exoplanet science, it was easy to assume that all systems around other stars would be similar to our own solar system: rocky worlds close in, gas giants further out — and all with co-planar, low-eccentricity orbits. As we observed the first exoplanets and learned about their properties, ...

A long-ago encounter between our galaxy and an orbiting dwarf might have ejected some of the Milky Way's stars. ... Institute for Astronomy, Germany) and colleagues have explored stars in two stellar populations known as the Triangulum-Andromeda (TriAnd for short) and A13 using the Keck I telescope in ...

“A light spectrum taken with the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands suggested that its atmosphere contained only helium and no hydrogen,” says Elizabeth Green, an associate astronomer at the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory who helped decipher the star's true ...