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ASKAP telescope discovered Teleios, a perfectly spherical radio-only object in Milky Way with diameter up to 157 light-years.
There's no shortage of round celestial objects in our universe. Planets, moons and stars all exhibit lovely spherical shapes.
Residents of Buga, Colombia were minding their business when the sky decided to drop a plot twist right into their backyard: ...
Shi’s Star Catalog has been notoriously difficult to date, but new research suggests astronomers drafted it centuries before its Western counterpart.
Thousands of years ago, Chinese astronomers used an ancient record of constellations and their coordinates to study the sky.
Ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen’s star catalog, known as The Star Manual of Master Shi, is now considered the oldest star ...
The Star Manual of Master Shi is an ancient Chinese star catalog now claimed by astronomers at the Chinese National ...
That in each of the planetary spheres, however, there is a multitude coordinate to each may ... a unique and powerful role in the celestial arrangement. Each of them governs a multitude of beings ...
Sorting star coordinates in star image plane, and then matching, which avoid matching between stars with a long distance in image plane. Star catalogue partition divides the celestial sphere into many ...
This new research highlights the advanced knowledge Chinese astronomers possessed and their role in the development of celestial mapping, including innovations like the armillary sphere ... the ...
Regarding the right ascensions and declinations of celestial objects for the purposes of amateur astronomy, some coordinates change and some do not (except over very long periods of time). Objects ...