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Spanish Dancer Galaxy Twirls Into View – Dark Energy Camera Captures Celestial Phenomena
This image, taken by astronomers using the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter…
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Ghostly Unseen “Mirror World” Might Be Cause of Cosmic Controversy With Hubble Constant
An unseen ‘mirror world’ of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity may be key to solving the…
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Astronomers Find “Gold Standard” Star in Milky Way With the Widest Range of Elements
The star HD 222925 is a ninth-magnitude star located toward the southern constellation Tucana. Credit: The STScI Digitized Sky Survey…
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Mystery of Universe’s Expansion Rate: Hubble Data Shows That “Something Weird” Is Going On
A representation of the evolution of the universe over 13.77 billion years. The far left depicts the earliest moment we…
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Hubble Captures a Peculiar Galactic Pair
Hubble Space Telescope image of IC 4271, a pair of spiral galaxies located about 800 million light-years away. Credit: NASA,…
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Astronomers Discover Hidden Trove of Massive Black Holes – “We All Got Nervous”
The newly discovered massive black holes reside in dwarf galaxies, where their radiation competes with the light of abundant young…
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Watch the Dramatic Video of NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s Record-Breaking Flight
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made a record-breaking 25th flight on April 8, 2022. The navigation camera aboard the rotorcraft captured…
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A Strange Surging Glow in a Distant Galaxy Could Change the Way We Look at Black Holes
This illustration shows the accretion disk, corona (pale, conical swirls above the disk), and supermassive black hole of active galaxy…
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Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Measuring the Age and Size of the Universe
Spiral galaxy NGC 4603 containing Cepheids being used for distance measurements. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Maund The top-ranked scientific…
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Strange Radio-Emitting Neutron Star Discovered in Stellar Graveyard
Artist impression of the 76s pulsar (in magenta) compared to other more rapidly spinning sources. Credit: Danielle Futselaar An international…
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