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Proliferating satellites are beginning to harm the science work of the beloved Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories ...

Study using radio telescope data finds most geostationary satellites emit little unintended radio interference in frequencies used for astronomy ...

The first pulsar was discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell. Finding these mysterious signals forever changed astronomy.

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