7 unseen images of Space captured by NASA
The ring-shaped clouds around the nebula RCW 120 were detected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in this composite image. The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million ...
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Revealing the dark side of outside light
Ever since the winter solstice on Dec. 21, daylight in Evanston has been slowly but steadily increasing, and on Jan. 28, the ...
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Here's How You Can Spot Six Planets in a Spectacular Planet Parade This Week
Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn should be visible to the naked eye, but get a telescope and you can spot Neptune and Uranus.
Fast radio bursts appear to be caused by young neutron stars
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the greater mysteries facing astronomers today, rivaled only by gravitational waves (GWs) ...
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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
Earth’s recent ‘mini-moon’ may be an actual piece of the moon, astronomers say
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, Edwin Hubble settled astronomy's 'Great Debate'
A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...
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Space Race 2025: Multiple Agencies Set to Launch New Missions
The Moon and asteroids are at the top of the mission list for a number of agencies, while others will focus on exploration to ...
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Gaia Mission Measures Metals In Milky Way Stars
Milky Way stars that are high and low in metallicity have been mapped by the ESA Gaia mission. [Gaia spacecraft: Mapping the ...
ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Wraps Up Revolutionary Milky Way Mapping Mission
ESA’s decade-long Milky Way Gaia mapping mission still has tons of data to release over the next few years. Expect surprises.
South African telescope discovers a giant galaxy that’s 32 times bigger than Earth’s
The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and ...
Time-lapse of 1st black hole ever imaged reveals how matter swirls around it
Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...