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 a cosmological mystery that’s been brewing since the 1920s. The mystery involves the make-up and ...
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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 the first example of a phenomenally rare type of binary star system, one that has ...
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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 3.32 billion celestial objects — arguably the largest such catalog so far ...
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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 a black hole ...
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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
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world’s skies.While Webb and other space telescopes, including NASA's Hubble and Spitzer, previously have revealed isolated ingredients of ...
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