A team of astronomers has used asteroseismology, or the study of stellar oscillations, to accurately measure the distance of stars from the Earth. Their research examined thousands of stars and ...
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How astronomers measure distance without travelling anywhere
It’s a bit mind-bending to realise that everything we know about the scale of the universe comes from people stuck […] ...
For the first time, astronomers have produced a complete description of a black hole, a concentration of mass so dense that not even light can escape its powerful gravitational pull. Their precise ...
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