Astronomical objects
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Move Over ‘Farout,’ Astronomers Confirm ‘Farfarout’ Is the Solar System’s Most Distant Known Object
A view of the night sky from the Uruguayan countryside on May 10, 2019.Photo: Mariana Suarez (Getty Images) What astronomers…
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Astronomers Looking for One Black Hole May Have Found an Entire Squad
About 7,800 light-years away—within our galactic neighborhood—is globular cluster NGC 6397, basically a wad of stars held together by gravity.…
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Astronomers Found a ‘Benjamin Button’ Galaxy
The ALMA telescope sits high in Chile’s Atacama Desert.Photo: MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images (Getty Images) At 1.2 billion years…
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