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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine shall convene an ad hoc survey committee and supporting study panels to carry out a decadal survey in astronomy and astrophysics. The ...

This year’s overall winners are photographers Waiting Liang, Qi Yang, and Chuhong Yu, who collaborated to capture The Andromeda Core. This grand prize-winning image, captured using a long telescope at ...

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