For the first time, astronomers have captured the perception of collision waves through the resonant strings of the cosmic web, the vast array of galaxies,
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Astronomers still have their eyes on NASA’s whacked asteroids
This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows debris from the surface of Dimorphos 285 hours after NASA’s DART spacecraft blasted off the asteroid’s surface.
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The Milky Way can merge more stars than astronomers
The Milky Way contains far more stars than previously thought, according to a new estimate of its star formation. Gamma rays from aluminum-26, a radioactive
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Uncovering the Secrets of the Early Universe: Astronomers Capture Radio Signals From a Distant Galaxy
One of the Metrowave Radio stations (GMRT) near Pune, Maharashtra, India. Credit: National Center for Radio Astrophysics They are now able to probe galaxies much
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BlueWalker 3, a huge and brilliant communications satellite, really got astronomers excited
Trail from BlueWalker 3 above the Kitt Peak telescope in Arizona. (Image credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/IAU/SKAO/NSF/AURA/R. Sparks) This article was first published Conversation. (Opens in a new
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10 Times This Year The Webb Telescope Blew Astronomers to Take Stunning New Images of Our Universe
By Colin Jacobs and Karl Glazebrook, Swinburne University of Technology December 29, 2022 What looks very much like rugged mountains on a lunar evening is
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A new kilonova has astronomers rethinking what we know about gamma-ray bursts
Dilated / An artificial impression of GRB 211211A. A kilonova and gamma-ray burst on the right. Aaron M. Geller/Northwestern/CIERA A year ago, astronomers discovered a
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Astronomers spot the biggest galaxy ever, and Scala will break your wits
This year, astronomers discovered an absolute monster of a galaxy. Alkyoneus is a huge ray of the hidden galaxy reaching a distance of 5 megaparsecs.
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Astronomers report that a black hole is tearing apart a star by force
A hitherto undetected black hole announced its presence to astronomers when it tore apart and swallowed a wandering star too close. A medium-mass black hole
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Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Yard
Almost but not quite in time for Halloween, astronomers announced on Friday that they had found the most famous black hole. It is a large,
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