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Artist’s conception of a white dwarf star accreting helium from disk.  When the helium builds up on the surface, it causes an explosion, which triggers a second detonation in the core of the star, exploding it.

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Sandy Seale | 10 Jan 2024

Artist impression of a doughnut-shaped cloud that was formed after two ice giant planets collided. Image credit: Mark-Garlick

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Edward Gomez | 11 Oct 2023

Astronomers investigating a star that had unexpectedly faded discover ‘synestia’ – a cloud of molten, vapourised rock shaped like a doughnut- that had dimmed the star’s brightness

Comet 13P/Olbers recovery image(s) from August 24. This is a stack of the two exposures with combined exposure time of 20 minutes. Image Credit: Alan Hale

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The NASA DART spacecraft impacted the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26 at 4:14pm PDT. The images from the LCO 1-m telescope in South Africa show the expanding cloud of ejecta, twelve and fifteen minutes after the moment of impact.

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Students from Mission Platinum requesting images

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Edward Gomez | 11 Aug 2022

We welcome 7 new Global Sky Partners serving audiences in Chile, Canada, Sri Lanka, Middle East, and online.

Galaxy NGC 1309. Image Credit:  NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and A. Riess (JHU/STScI).

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Sandy Seale | 14 Jun 2022

This simulation of a supermassive black hole shows how it distorts the starry background and captures light, producing a black hole silhouettes. Image Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC.

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Sandy Seale | 18 Feb 2022

Launch of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART Mission) as seen from Vandenberg Space Force Base on November 23, 2021.  Image Credit: Tim Lister, LCO.

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Students in the HI STAR program demonstrating their work in astronomy.

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Sandy Seale | 24 Sep 2021

This image depicts a young star named GM Aur eating up gas and dust particles of a protoplanetary disk, which is represented by the green material surrounding the bright star. Image by M. M. Romanova

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Sandy Seale | 08 Sep 2021