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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.Vahe Peroomian, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters,…

Is bigger, better?It depends on whether you like the cosmos or not.But when it comes to looking at it with a telescope, larger telescopes are an easy win, since they can gather more light, enabling astronomers to see farther into deep…

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Spatial distribution of stars within a small region centered on Pegasus IV. Credit: Cerny et al., 2022. An international team of…

For how progressive diminutive “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage thinks he is, his social justice sentiments are now blocking an actual minority community from their “dream jobs.”  Dinklage is now getting called out by Hollywood’s…

Artist’s impression of planets orbiting a red dwarf. Credit: Mark Garlick Led by the <span aria-describedby="tt" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="University of BernFounded in 1834, the University of Bern…

Illustration of the origin of magnetic fields in white dwarfs in close binaries (to be read counter clockwise). The magnetic field appears when a crystallizing white dwarf accretes from a companion star and as a consequence starts to…

Artistic impression of the super-Earth in orbit around the red dwarf star GJ-740. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz, SMM (IAC) In recent years there has been an exhaustive study of red dwarf stars to find exoplanets in orbit around them. These…

In the past decade, the study of exoplanets has grown by leaps and bounds. At present, a total of 4,201 planets have been confirmed beyond the Solar System and another 5,481 candidates await confirmation. In the midst of all this,…

A series of ‘black dwarf’ supernovae will be the last astrophysical events to occur in our Universe prior to the so-called heat death, when the Universe will be populated only by black holes and ‘frozen’ white dwarfs, according to a…