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Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: White Dwarf

Looking like glittering jewels, the stars in this Hubble Space Telescope image at left are part of the ancient globular…

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Unlocking a New Era in Astronomy From 250 Meters Underground

The Einstein Telescope is being built around 250 meters underground. With interferometers in the three tunnels, each ten kilometers long,…

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“Flares” and “Echoes” – Unveiling the Monster Black Hole at Our Galaxy’s Core

Michigan State University researcher Grace Sanger-Johnson found nine previously undiscovered X-ray flares from Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central supermassive…

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NASA’s Voyager 1 Springs Back to Life

NASA’s Voyager 1 has overcome a technical setback from November 2023, successfully resuming normal operations and data transmission by May…

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Witnessing the First Galaxies Feeding on Cold Gas

This illustration shows a galaxy forming only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, when gas was a…

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Webb Does the “Impossible” – Space Telescope Captures First Glimpse of an Exoplanet’s Interior

An artist’s concept of WASP-107 b shows turbulent atmospheric mixing within the planet’s gas envelope. Credit: Roberto Molar Candanosa/Johns Hopkins…

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MIT Astronomers Capture Elusive Starlight From Early Quasars

New findings by MIT show early supermassive black holes grew rapidly from large cosmic seeds, challenging previous understandings of galaxy…

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Webb Telescope Captures Massive Asteroid Collision in Neighboring Star System

Astronomers observed a giant asteroid collision in Beta Pictoris, using data from the Webb and Spitzer telescopes. The event, occurring…

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Hypervelocity Star Spotted Racing Through the Milky Way at 1.3 Million MPH

A simulation of a possible explanation for an L subdwarf named CWISE J124909+362116.0’s speed shows it as a part of…

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Hubble Revisits a Strange Star’s 40-Year Nova Mystery

This artist’s concept shows the nova system HM Sagittae (HM Sge), where a white dwarf star is pulling material from…

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