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Butterfly basin: Astronomers find the biggest known reservoir of planet-forming ingredients around a young star!
In the vast expanse of the cosmos, countless elements and compounds converge in cosmic clouds, offe…
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Hubble has found a black hole disk that should be non-existent
The disk is so close to black hole’s gravitational pull that even light is having a ha…
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Our very own black hole in the Milky Way doesn’t quite eat up ‘everything’
About 26,000 light years away from the earth and four million times the size of the sun, researc…
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Scientists spotted jets of hot gas whizzing out of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy
Authors of a new study reveal how they imaged plasma jets shooting out of a black hole nestled insi…
Aylin Woodward
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Milky Way’s ‘quiet wimpy’ black hole is getting hungrier and brighter
The black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is normally benign. But, for the first…
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The pain Mexicans are feeling at the gas pump is spreading to their stomachs
With elevated fuel prices projected to continue into the summer, along with resultant rises in the …
Christopher Woody
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At least 7 stars in our galaxy have the potential to harbor advanced alien technology, researchers find
After surveying 5 million stars throughout our galaxy, researchers identified seven that may host D…
Ellyn Lapointe
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Here’s what falling inside a black hole would look like, according to a NASA supercomputer simulation
Have you ever wondered what happens if you were to fall into a black hole? Thanks to cutting-edge v…
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Icy pebbles may be carrying water to developing planets across the cosmos!
Scientists, exploring the origins of water on Earth and other exoplanets, may have uncovered a prom…
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Astronomers find planet that seems too humongous to be orbiting its parent star!
A group of astronomers has identified a planet over 13 times the mass of Earth in orbit around an u…
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Hidden third stars could be making binary star system members eat each other, scientists find
Scientists speculate that the concealed third star in Be star systems might gradually compel the mo…
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope spotted a question mark in deep space. It could be 2 galaxies colliding.
Webb stumbled upon an orange question mark in the distant cosmos. Is the universe taunting us? No, …
Sonam Sheth,Morgan McFall-Joh…
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The James Webb Space Telescope found a molecular building block of life hiding in the Orion Nebula
New images from the Webb Telescope revealed methyl cation, or CH3+ molecule, in a young star system…
Natalie Musumeci,Morgan McFal…
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A brilliant cosmic burst 100 times as bright as our galaxy came from 2 black holes circling each other, study finds
Scientists said the bright flare occurred after one of the black holes crashed through a gaseous di…
Chris Panella,Jessica Orwig
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Spectacular new photo from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows a star being born
The protostar L1527 was spotted spewing an hourglass-shaped beam of material on surrounding cosmic …
Marianne Guenot
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Hubble Space Telescope spots billion year old ‘Sombrero Galaxy’ in a stunning new image
NASA has shared a stunning image of the ‘Sombrero’ galaxy captured using its Hubble space telescope…
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New photos show the Orion Nebula, a star nursery 1,350 light-years from Earth, in great detail. Scientists have been waiting on them for 5 years.
The Orion Nebula shares a similar environment to that in which our solar system was formed over 4.5…
Dhany Osman
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NASA image may show first-ever 'rogue' supermassive black hole, leaving a trail of newborn stars in its wake
A supermassive black hole may have been kicked out of its galaxy after two other black holes moved …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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How the circular economy could solve the smartphone-waste problem — and curb the manufacturing industry's carbon footprint, too
Manufacturing is the third-largest contributor to US greenhouse-gas emissions, accounting for 25% o…
Freya Graham
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Watch 2 supermassive black holes dance around each other in a mesmerizing NASA animation
Black holes are encircled by a glowing disk of hot gas. When one black hole approaches another, its…