Category:Astronomy
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This is the category for astronomy, the scientific study of things beyond the Earth. Space travel is not, innately, astronomy, though astronomy may be the purpose of some (or even most) space travel.
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From Wikinews, the free news source you can write.  Image: NASA's Hubble Telescope.
File photo of the Crab Nebula. Sister projects
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Subcategories
This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
Pages in category "Astronomy"
The following 93 pages are in this category, out of 93 total.
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- Alan Turing Building opens at University of Manchester
- Astronomer Anthony Boccaletti discusses observation of birth of potential exoplanet with Wikinews
- Astronomer proposes Hubble replacement
- Astronomer tells Wikinews about discovery of closest black hole known so far
- Astronomers discover large exo-solar system
- Astronomers discover largest star on record
- Astronomers discover smallest known star
- Astronomers find changes in Saturn's rings
- Astronomers report dwarf star with unexpectedly giant planet
- Astronomers reveal discovery of the hottest gas giant exoplanet known yet
- Astronomers say asteroid could hit Mars
- Astronomers to vote on potential new planets
- Astronomers witness supernova
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- ESA launches Herschel Space Observatory and Planck Satellite
- European telescope searches for planets
- Evidence of 'shattered moon' found inside rings of Saturn
- Exclusive: David Anderson talks about the Stardust@home project
- Extraordinary feature found on Saturn's moon Iapetus
- Extrasolar planet will most probably fall into its star
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- NASA detects dry, dusty atmospheres on extrasolar planets
- NASA flyby of Saturn moon Titan produces first image of liquid on another world
- NASA launches two space probes to the moon
- NASA observes largest supernova on record
- NASA postpones Stardust mission briefing, no revised date as of yet
- NASA prepares to launch mission to nearby asteroids
- NASA says star system contains 'earth-like planet' in the making
- NASA successfully launches Kepler Telescope
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx arrives in Houston, US after returning asteroid samples to Earth
- NASA's Spitzer space telescope views alien worlds
- National Academy of Sciences recommends manned Hubble repair
- Near-Earth asteroid 2004 MN4 reaches Torino Scale hazard rating 4
- New comet to be visible to naked eye for several days
- New Horizons probe bound for Pluto on nine year journey
- New planet found in 'Habitable Zone'
- New ring discovered around Saturn, could explain dark side of its moon
- New rocky planet discovered in orbit around nearby star
- New stars found in Southern Cross
- Newly discovered extra-solar planet may be Earth-like
- Nicolaus Copernicus buried again
- Northern lights may appear across Canada and northern U.S. late Tuesday night
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- Saturn's moon Titan hosts liquid lakes and rivers
- Saturn's rings are much older than previously thought
- Scientists conclude that the universe may expand forever
- Scientists discover Earth-like planet
- Scientists say the moon is slowly shrinking
- Scientists: Rock that hit New Jersey home is 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite
- Searching for asteroids, extraterrestrial life a little more rocky: Budget cuts threaten to close Arecibo, world's largest radio telescope
- Star ousted from galaxy by black hole
- Stephen Hawking: aliens 'almost certain to exist,' could invade Earth
- Study says young stars 'shoot water bullets'
- Sun's mood swings not so strange after all, say scientists
- Swedish academy announces 2019 Nobel Prize winners in physics