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BUFFALO charges towards the earliest galaxies

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 08:39 AM PDT

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has started a new mission to shed light on the evolution of the earliest galaxies in the Universe. The BUFFALO survey will observe six massive galaxy clusters and their surroundings. The first observations show the galaxy cluster Abell 370 and a host of magnified, gravitationally lensed galaxies around it.

VLBA measures asteroid's characteristics

Posted: 13 Sep 2018 08:38 AM PDT

Astronomers took advantage of a celestial alignment to make a novel and creative radio observation yielding information about the size, shape, and orbit of an asteroid.