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Witness a “Once-in-a-Lifetime” Nova Explosion

A red giant star and white dwarf orbit each other in this animation of a nova similar to T Coronae…

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NASA’s Planet Hunter’s Rare Glimpse at Two Black Holes in a Faraway Galaxy

The black holes in orbit around each other. Both black holes have jets associated with them: the larger one with…

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How Supermassive Black Holes Grow so Massive

A Penn State research team has enhanced our understanding of supermassive black hole growth by integrating X-ray data and galaxy…

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The Surprising Ancestry of Nearby Star Clusters

The Alpha Persei star cluster: An optical image of the Alpha Persei star cluster from the second Digitized Sky Survey…

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How Modified Gravity Challenges Einstein and Dark Matter

Using gravitational lensing, scientists uncovered that dark matter may stretch over a million light-years from galactic centers, proposing significant adjustments…

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Advanced Telescopes Reveal Hidden Worlds Orbiting Bright Stars

Scientists have detected light signals from previously unseen dim companions of eight luminous stars by combining data from ESA’s Gaia…

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Odysseus Lander Achieves “Dawn of Radio Astronomy From the Moon”

Touch down! A NOVA-C lander named Odysseus and built by the company Intuitive Machines lands on the surface of the…

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Giant Magellan Telescope Achieves Major Milestone

Rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope enclosure at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Credit: IDOM / Giant Magellan Telescope –…

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JWST’s Insights Into Protoplanetary Disks

Artist’s impression of a protoplanetary disk around a very low-mass star. It depicts a selection of hydrocarbon molecules (Methane, CH4;…

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How Black Holes Propel Galaxy Evolution

An artist’s impression of a quasar wind (in light blue) being launched off of the accretion disk (red-orange) around a…

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