Scientists say breakthrough could shorten the time needed to map the Milky Way from millennia to less than a decade.

A consensus is emerging that the dots, sometimes called rubies, are an entirely new type of object in the Universe.

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You’ve got a laser cutter. You’ve got a 3D printer. What do you make? [Ayushmaan45] suggests a telescope. The modest instrument isn’t going to do serious astronomy with only 8X ...