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Artist's illustration of a galaxy, a comet, and dust particles.
19 Nov 2019
Using the Cooled Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrometer on the Subaru Telescope, astronomers have detected an unidentified infrared emission band from comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner in addition to the thermal emissions from silicate and carbon grains.
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03 Apr 2018
An international team of researchers including the Kavli IPMU have observed the most distant individual star, 9 billion light years from Earth.