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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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How Neutron Stars May Solve the Universe’s Biggest Mystery

A recent study from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics suggests that neutron stars could play…

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AI and NASA Swift Map the Universe’s Farthest Gamma-Ray Bursts

Scientists have applied advanced machine learning techniques to significantly enhance the precision of distance measurements for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). By…

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The Cosmic Event That Rewrote Earth’s Climate History

Two million years ago, the solar system encountered a dense interstellar cloud that may have significantly influenced Earth’s climate by…

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Quantum Theory Unveils Surprising Black Hole Shortage

Researchers applied quantum field theory to the early universe, predicting fewer primordial black holes than other models suggest, potentially impacting…

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Webb’s Spectroscopic Hunt for Earth-Like Planets

By Knicole Colón and Christopher Stark, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center June 9, 2024 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is…

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Groundbreaking Map of the Universe Redefines Cosmic Models

The DESI collaboration is conducting a groundbreaking experiment to understand the universe’s expansion and acceleration. Their work with the DESI…

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Webb Space Telescope’s Glimpse of Cosmic Dawn

This infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (also called Webb or JWST) was taken by the NIRCam (Near-Infrared…

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