It's not flat like we thought. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. By calculating the distance from the sun to thousands of pulsating ...

Like a misshapen potato chip, our home galaxy is warped. A new 3-D map brings the contorted structure of the Milky Way’s disk into better view, thanks to measurements of special stars called Cepheids, ...

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A research team led by Dr. HUANG Yang from the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) pioneered the "motion picture" method for measuring the precession rate of ...