Galactic
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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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Supermassive Black Holes: The Ultimate Snitches Giving Away Galactic Center Secrets
At the heart of most, if not all, giant galaxies lies a supermassive black hole. As matter rotates around and…
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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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Boeing’s Starliner Safely Lands on Earth – Completing Critical Test Flight to Space Station
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft safely lands at White Sands Missile Range’s Space Harbor on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in New…
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Hubble Captures a Turbulent Galactic Gravitational Dance
Hubble Space Telescope image of the large spiral galaxy NGC 3227 on the left and the elliptical galaxy NGC 3226…
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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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Webb Space Telescope’s Quest for Primeval Black Holes
Artist conception of the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The Webb Space Telescope team continues to…
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Hubble Space Telescope Goes Galactic Birdwatching
Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7496, which lies over 24 million light-years away in the…
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Unlocking the Mysterious Missing Links of Black Hole Astronomy
An accreting SMBH in a fairly local galaxy with very large and extended radio jets. Credit: R. Timmerman; LOFAR &…
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High Contrast Imaging Reveals Unknown Structure in Galaxy
Artist’s impression of a giant galaxy with a high-energy jet. Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) Astronomers have just discovered an unknown structure…
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