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This New NASA Telescope Will Map The Universe in 102 Colors of Light. Here’s Why it’s a Big Deal
EST, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will soon roar into the sky, carrying a compact NASA telescope with an extraordinary mission ...
‘Ghosts of the radio universe’: astronomers have discovered a slew of faint circular objects
The ghostly ring Kýklos (from the Greek κύκλος, circle or ring) and the object WR16 both show the environment of rare and ...
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Fast Radio Burst Traced Back to The Last Place We Expected
Most of them flare just once, randomly, making them impossible to predict, and very difficult to trace back to a source. Some ...
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New NASA Space Telescope Will See the Universe in 102 Colors
NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented ...
Astrophysicists surprised by light show around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...
A rare seven-planet ‘parade’ will light up the sky. Here’s how to see it.
If you bring a telescope and get away from city lights Friday evening, there’s a chance you’ll see seven planets parading ...
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Research makes progress on detecting radio signals from early universe
Radio telescopes detect signals from billions of years ago, but radio-frequency interference presents challenges.
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Flickers and flares: Milky Way’s central black hole constantly bubbles with light
Astrophysicists used the JWST to observe central supermassive black hole for 48 hours total across one year. They found the ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals a Never-Ending Cosmic Firestorm at the Center of the Milky Way
Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...
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NASA's Hubble provides bird's-eye view of Andromeda galaxy's ecosystem
Located 2.5 million light-years away, the majestic Andromeda galaxy appears to the naked eye as a faint, spindle-shaped object roughly the angular size of the full Moon. What backyard observers don't ...
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’
In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...
A seven-planet alignment happens in late-February, but it could be tricky to see it
While all seven planets could appear in some form in parts of the U.S., not all of them will be visible to the naked eye. Here's what to know.