astronomy
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Saturn Secures Its Title as the ‘Moon King’ With Major Haul of New Moons
Saturn just solidified its title as ‘moon king’ with an updated tally of 274 satellites orbiting the gas giant. The…
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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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