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Astronomy
Astronomers from the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, DC, and elsewhere have employed NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft to observe a pulsar wind nebula inside a supernova remnant known as…
May 30, 2026
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Astronomy
Cosmic rays seen at Earth show a wide range of particle energies, from 107 electron-volts (eV) to more than 1020 eV, the latter being about the same as the kinetic…
May 30, 2026
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Astronomy
The gleaming skyscrapers and bright lights of the United Arab Emirates draw the eyes of all who travel there, a sign of the Arabian Peninsula nation's rapid, oil-fueled development over…
May 30, 2026
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Astronomy
Which comes first, the galaxy or the black hole? We don't know, but scientists have long thought it could be the galaxy: Large stars within an existing galaxy consume their…
May 29, 2026
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Astronomy
Think about a census. You could photograph every house in the country and produce a beautiful map, but without knocking on doors and asking questions, you'd know almost nothing about…
May 29, 2026
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Even the satellites are seeing red.
May 29, 2026
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Astronomy
Astronomers may have uncovered a hidden supermassive black hole inside the famous Antennae galaxies NGC 4038/4039, a pair of colliding galaxies best known for their spectacular bursts of star formation.…
May 29, 2026
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Astronomers have discovered the first evidence that tiny red dwarf stars can devour their own planets.
May 29, 2026
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New research suggests the moons of Jupiter and Uranus may hint that our planetary neighborhood once had a third ice giant.
May 29, 2026
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Astronomy
The universe is full of fascinating structures, and some of the most striking take shape inside the giant clouds where stars are born. There, streams of gas appear to converge…
May 29, 2026
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Astronomy
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is poised to make a major leap in the hunt for worlds outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. Scientists expect the mission to…
May 29, 2026
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Astronomy
On the night of 18 December 2019, a star in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, briefly got brighter. Not dramatically nor explosively, just a smooth symmetrical rise and…
May 29, 2026
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