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In its first 100 days, the James Webb telescope peered deep into space, took beauty shots of faraway galaxies and glittering nebulae, and saw a spacecraft slam into an asteroid
Since July, the powerful infrared telescope has sent hundreds of observations back to scientists on…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Astronomers thought it was one massive black hole — but it's actually cluster of smaller black holes with a whole lot of energy
In an unexpected finding, astronomers have discovered a concentration of smaller black holes, inste…
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Indian astronomers spot over 200 new stars in the Pacman Nebula — and 51 of them are yet to reach adulthood
Not every star shines bright in Earth’s sky. In fact, some of them are clearly visible one moment b…
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A cluster of some of the brightest stars in our galaxy glitter in this new Hubble image
The stars in Trumpler 14 are only a few hundred thousand years old (our own sun is billions of year…
Kelly Dickerson
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NASA's first full-color image from the James Webb Space Telescope peers further back in time than any prior infrared lens, revealing 13 billion years of galaxies
The James Webb Space Telescope captured galaxies from more than 13 billion years ago in stunning in…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola R…
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New stars running from the death of their own galaxies means our Milky Way might survive
These stars are migrant refugees fleeing from their own dwarf galaxies — known as Magellanic Clo…
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A new simulation reveals what dark matter might look like if we could see it: massive halos surrounding every galaxy in the universe
A new simulation shows that dark matter haloes look the same, whether Earth-sized or many billions …
Susie Neilson
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Milky Way's neighbour might not be so ‘dead’ with young stars brewing at its center
But the Messier 110 might be an exception. But, the discovery of new stars in Mess…
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Here's A Hypnotizing New Image Of A Mysterious Ancient Star Cluster
The blob of stars hold some mystery to astronomers still. While studying the cluster with Hubble in…
Jennifer Welsh
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How to create a contact group on your iPhone, and use it to message a specific cluster of people at once
If you send a lot of email, contact groups can come in handy because they let you send an email mes…
Dave Johnson
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The Galaxy S20 Ultra is too fragile for a $1,400 smartphone
And as for the hairline crack on the camera module, there's nothing specific for the Galaxy S20 Ult…
Antonio Villas-Boas
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A new 3D map of the Milky Way reveals our galaxy's warped shape in unprecedented detail
Cepheids are easy to study because they pulsate at regular intervals and burn hundreds (or sometime…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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An astronomer's stunning photo of the Milky Way shows our galaxy through a crystal ball
He placed the crystal ball on a handrail post, then aimed his Canon 6D camera at the orb. He chose …
Dave Mosher
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Young stars at the edge of the Milky Way appear to have come from 2 nearby galaxies. That means a galactic collision could happen sooner than predicted.
Since it's easier to measure the distance of stars than clouds of gas, the discovery allowed the sc…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers think they've found the oldest stars in our entire galaxy
Astronomers have spotted what they think could be the oldest stars in our entire galaxy. These star…
Emmanuel Ocbazghi,Jessica Orw…
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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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The Hubble telescope just discovered a relic that changes the way we understand our galaxy
"We think that some remnants of these gaseous clumps could remain relatively undisrupted and keep e…
Lindsay Dodgson
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Scientists have made the largest map of galaxies ever - and it will shine light on one of the darkest mysteries of the universe
A slice through the map of the large-scale structure of the Universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Sur…
Ali Sundermier
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11 wimpy galaxies are beating up our brightest explanation yet for a deep, dark cosmic mystery
Timothy Brandt, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study, wrote the study after he too…
Dave Mosher
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NASA just captured a record-breaking photo of a galaxy that's far, far away
The astronomers who found it caught only a glimpse of the faint, distant galaxy thanks to a cluster…