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Pune telescope detected an explosion five times bigger than the Big Bang 390 million light years from Earth
The other telescopes used for the discovery included NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Euro…
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A group of supermassive black holes is behaving very strangely - and it could shed light on the formation of the universe
The finding, which has never been predicted by cosmological theories, came as a surprise to the res…
Ali Sundermier
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China says its giant 'Sky Eye' telescope may have picked up signals from alien civilizations
Chinese researchers found signals that could be from "extraterrestrial civilizations," according to…
Bill Bostock
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Scientists want to build telescopes on the moon for up to $10 billion to see more of the universe than the James Webb Space Telescope
Astronomers want to build giant telescopes on the moon. They're already drafting blueprints and mak…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China now holds the world's last giant, single-dish telescope after the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope collapsed
China's FAST single-dish, giant telescope is the last remaining in the world. It is also the larges…
Azmi Haroun
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Photos show what the Arecibo telescope looked like before and after its disastrous collapse
Compare images of the iconic Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico before and after its platform fell 45…
Susie Neilson
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The black hole at the center of our galaxy just belched two giant bubbles of radiation
Hints of the structures first emerged in the 1980s, when astronomer and physicist Farhad Yusef-Zade…
Michelle Starr
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Dead planets can 'broadcast' for up to a billion years, and they could tell astronomers what will happen after our sun blows up
Stars die because they eventually burn through their reserves of hydrogen and helium. That fuel cre…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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A video shows the 'violent' collapse of the iconic Arecibo telescope. It sounded like an avalanche, a staff scientist said.
Puerto Rico's iconic Arecibo radio telescope collapsed on Tuesday. Videos show its 900-ton platform…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Aylin W…
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We just started building the largest and most powerful optical telescope ever
The mirrors must be absolutely flawless, or the telescope will return fuzzy and distorted images. I…
Kelly Dickerson
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Astronomers are listening for alien signals from a weird object that's flying through the solar system
"'Oumuamua's presence within our solar system affords Breakthrough Listen an opportunity to reach u…
Dave Mosher
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The iconic Arecibo telescope faces an imminent, catastrophic collapse. Engineers are now racing to deconstruct it.
One of Earth's two key radio observatories has been damaged beyond repair. The loss is a major blow…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Dave Mo…
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Here's how space would look if you had superhuman vision
"That's much better than we humans can manage, and it even beats the very best in the animal kingdo…
Dave Mosher
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The Arecibo telescope's 900-ton platform has crashed into its disk below and destroyed the iconic radio observatory
One of Earth's key radio telescopes fell in on itself, dealing a major blow to astronomers' searche…
Aylin Woodward,Dave Mosher,Mo…
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NASA is developing plans to build an enormous, Arecibo-like telescope inside a crater on the moon
NASA researchers are plotting out how robots could build a radio telescope inside a moon crater. It…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers say they've discovered the largest magnetic fields in the universe
When clusters of galaxies collide, their billions of stars and trillions of planets rarely make con…