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A Super-Powerful Telescope Caught This Image Of Strange Happenings In An Ancient Star Cluster
Star clusters are made up of giant circular clouds of old stars, some around 12 billion years old (…
Randy Astaiza
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Supermassive black hole traps six galaxies in a 'spider web' that is 300 times bigger than the Milky Way
This is the first time that such a large number of galaxies have been spotted so close to …
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An asteroid was supposed to hit Earth in September — but astronomers can’t seem to find it
An asteroid which was expected to hit the Earth on 9 September 2019 might, not be on its way to E…
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SpaceX asked a major European astronomy group for a meeting after it published a concerning paper about Starlink's effects on telescopes
In general Williams said ESO coordinates contact with commercial space companies through working gr…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The largest map of the cosmos hints that dark energy is changing. It could prove Einstein wrong and upend a pillar of modern physics.
Astronomers have made the largest 3-D map of our universe and it could change the way we understand…
Jessica Orwig,Morgan McFall-J…
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Watch the sun show off all year with a total eclipse, strong solar storms, and NASA almost landing on the solar surface
A Helio Year: With a total solar eclipse across the US, a NASA spacecraft "landing" on the sun, and…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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If you thought the planet Neptune was a deep blue color, turns out you're wrong
Neptune has long been pictured as a deep, rich blue. Researchers reprocessed NASA images to show it…
Mia Jankowicz
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New image from one of Earth's largest telescopes shows a 'star factory' nebula in stunning detail
The picture, of the Cone Nebula 2500-light-years away, was snapped by the European Southern Observa…
Marianne Guenot
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Scientists capture first direct image of a supermassive black hole, 6.5 billion times the size of the sun, spewing out jets of plasma
Astronomers hope the discovery will help us understand exactly how these jets are created — s…
Marianne Guenot
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Alphabet slides 9% after a report the tech titan's ad for its new Google AI chatbot Bard had inaccurate information
Reuters reported a Google ad for its AI Bard chatbot service had an inaccurate answer about NASA's …
Carla Mozée
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Whoops: Google's ad for new ChatGPT rival Bard shows the AI chatbot giving an inaccurate answer
Google's new AI chatbot Bard showed an inaccurate answer to a question about the discoveries of the…
Britney Nguyen
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Watch live as Biden reveals the first full-color image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
NASA's new space telescope is 100 times more powerful than Hubble, with the ability to peer further…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Side-by-side photographic glass plates and James Webb images show how telescope technology has evolved since the 1800s
Before powerful space-based telescopes like Webb, astronomers used clear glass plates scattered wit…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Astronomers find 2 supermassive black holes — the nearest to Earth ever discovered — are merging into a 'monster'
Scientists said the pair of black holes is 89 million light-years away from Earth in the NGC 7727 g…
Jake Epstein,Morgan McFall-Jo…
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Side-by-side images from the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes show why NASA spent 25 years and $10 billion
NASA's new space observatory can capture details nobody has ever seen: countless galaxies, clouds o…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers may have just found the most distant astronomical object ever observed
Astronomers might have discovered the most distant astronomical object ever observed. Named HD1, it…
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Astronomers say a new type of stellar explosion on distant dead stars — called 'micronova' — could be plentiful in our universe
Using NASA satellite data, researchers observed a new class of stellar explosion, which is similar …
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Meet the black hole at the center of our galaxy: Scientists just took its picture for the first time
Researchers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole lurking at the heart of our gal…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola R…
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Astronomers captured rare images of a black hole shredding a star into spaghetti-like strands and devouring it
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory observed a black hole sucking in a faraway star, s…
Susie Neilson
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Astronomers spotted a distant planet in the middle of making its own moon
The disc surrounding this planet has enough dust and gas to form three moons the size of our own. T…