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High-tech gadgets for stargazers

Popular Science aviation editor Eric Adams, covers cars, airplanes, space travel, military technology, and astronomy.

Three new planets found around sun-like star

Three medium-sized planets of roughly the same mass as Neptune have been discovered around a nearby sun-like star, scientists announced today.

Crab Nebula poses for Hubble close-up

The Hubble Space Telescope has caught the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula, revealing the intricate epitaph of a long-dead star.

Astronomers capture photo of extrasolar planet

After a few close calls, astronomers have finally obtained the first photograph of a planet beyond our solar system, SPACE.com has learned.

Photo may be first of extrasolar planet

A group of European-led astronomers has made a photograph of what appears to be a planet orbiting another star. If so, it would be the first confirmed picture of a world beyond our solar system.

Black holes multiply in new observations

European researchers have found 30 previously hidden supermassive black holes anchoring faraway galaxies, which suggests there at least twice as many of the colossal gravity wells as thought.

Stars near sun wild, wayward

A new survey of stars near the sun reveals a wild and crazy past in which wanderers arrived from all directions under the gravitational influences of black holes, clouds of gas and invading galaxies.

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