Our Mysterious Universe Still Evades Cosmological Understanding

Our Mysterious Universe Still Evades Cosmological Understanding

Science can uncover new knowledge, but it can also reveal what we don’t understand. New research is shedding light on ...
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Artist’s Impression of Kilonova Progenitor Star System

NOIRLab: First Kilonova Progenitor System Identified

Astronomers using the SMARTS 1.5-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab, have uncovered ...
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Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way.

NOIRLab: Billions of Celestial Objects Revealed in Gargantuan Survey of the Milky Way

Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering ...
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STScI: Hubble Finds Hungry Black Hole Twisting Captured Star Into Donut Shape

STScI: Hubble Finds Hungry Black Hole Twisting Captured Star Into Donut Shape

Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have recorded a star's final moments in detail as it gets gobbled up by ...
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STScI: NASA’s Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet

STScI: NASA’s Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet

Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the first time ...
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STScI: NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before

STScI: NASA’s Webb Reveals an Exoplanet Atmosphere as Never Seen Before

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world’s skies.While Webb ...
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STScI: Hubble Captures 3 Faces of Evolving Supernova in Early Universe

STScI: Hubble Captures 3 Faces of Evolving Supernova in Early Universe

Three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The ...
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NSO: Magnetic Cancellation Captures the Interest of NSO REU Graduate, NASA Parker Solar Probe

NSO: Magnetic Cancellation Captures the Interest of NSO REU Graduate, NASA Parker Solar Probe

The quiet Sun is a frontier of the solar surface devoid of active regions, plage, and sunspots, but what it ...
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NOIRLab: Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth

NOIRLab: Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth

Black holes are the most extreme objects in the Universe. Supermassive versions of these unimaginably dense objects likely reside at ...
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STScI: How Nasa’s Roman Telescope Will Scan for Show Stopping Explosions

STScI: How Nasa’s Roman Telescope Will Scan for Show Stopping Explosions

What happens when the densest, most massive stars – that are also super small – collide? They send out brilliant ...
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STScI: NASA’s Hubble Spots Twin Tails in New Image After DART Impact

STScI: NASA’s Hubble Spots Twin Tails in New Image After DART Impact

Two tails of dust ejected from the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system are seen in new images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, ...
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STScI: NASA’s Webb Takes Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation

STScI: NASA’s Webb Takes Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape – the iconic Pillars of Creation – where ...
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