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[ 29 March 2023 ] Supermassive black holes not impressive enough? Try the ultramassive version News
[ 28 March 2023 ] James Webb’s infrared vision lets astronomers take an exoplanet’s temperature News
[ 27 March 2023 ] NASA gearing up for OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample recovery News
[ 23 March 2023 ] A simpler, more mundane explanation for ‘Oumuamua’s strange behaviour News
[ 22 March 2023 ] Japanese Hakuto-R moon lander slips into lunar orbit News

Webb images M92, one of the Milky Way’s oldest globular clusters

23 February 2023 Astronomy Now

The James Webb Space Telescope provides a powerful new tool – the ability to image cool, low-mass stars in globular clusters like the familiar M92.

Iron-poor star hints at nature of first-generation suns

2 August 2019 Astronomy Now

Astronomers have found an exceptionally iron-poor star that may represent second-generation suns born in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang

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