Journey to center of Milky Way with upcoming NASA Roman core survey

At the heart of our own galaxy, there is a dense thicket of stars with a supermassive black hole at the very center. NASA's ...
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Astronomy and geophysics still 'overwhelmingly white' and failing to attract more women, survey reveals

Numbers of staff and postgraduate students in astronomy, solar system science and geophysics in the 2023, 2016 and 2010 surveys. Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly ...
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Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics 2020 (Astro2020)

What are the key scientific challenges for astronomy and astrophysics in the next decade? Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s identifies the most compelling science goals ...
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First eROSITA sky-survey data release makes public the largest ever catalog of high-energy cosmic sources

This image shows half of the X-ray sky projected onto a circle (so-called Zenit Equal Area projection) with the center of the Milky Way on the left and the galactic plane running horizontally. Photons ...

Dark Energy Survey scientists release analysis of all six years of survey data

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration collected information on hundreds of millions of galaxies across the universe using the ...
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UCSC shines in survey of senior women in astronomy

The Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz has more senior women faculty members (five) than any other astronomy department in the country, according to a recent survey by the ...