astronomy
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This Fuzzy Image Shows a Spiral Forming Soon After the Big Bang
BRI1335-0417, an early galaxy with spiral arm structures.Image: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), T. Tsukui & S. Iguchi A team of Japanese astronomers…
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Expanding Cloud From ‘Volcanic’ Star Revealed in New Hubble Image
The giant star AG Carinae. Image: Hubble/NASA/ESA On this, the 31st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch, astronomers with…
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Astronomers Don’t Know What Our Black Hole Ate, but They Definitely Saw It Belch
The Milky Way galaxy. Image: ESO/S. Brunier (Fair Use) In May 2019, astronomers witnessed a bright flare coming from the…
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New Video Puts Iconic Image of Black Hole in a Cosmic Context
Zooming out from the M87 black hole. Gif: Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration/Gizmodo Two years ago, astronomers acquired the first…
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Extreme Brown Dwarfs Found Spinning at Their Physical Limits
Artist’s impression of a brown dwarf. Image: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva New research documents the fastest-spinning brown dwarfs on record. The…
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Astronomers Spot X-Rays Coming From Uranus
Composite image of Uranus, composed of an X-ray image taken by Chandra (shown in pink) and an optical image taken…
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Where Are All the Aliens? Maybe Trapped in Underground Oceans
Saturn’s moon Enceladus.Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A planetary scientist says subterranean water worlds are likely common in the galaxy and…
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Mars Is Hiding Its ‘Lost’ Water Beneath the Surface, New Research Suggests
A view of Mars made up of around one hundred Viking Orbiter images.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/USGS Water that used to exist on…
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Astronomers Spotted a Black Hole Casually Gliding Through Space
The host galaxy of a mobile supermassive black hole.Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Some 230 million light-years from Earth,…
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