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Hubble Spots a Ghostly Galaxy 11 Million Light Years Away
A faint, disorganized galaxy is drifting through space 11 million light years from Earth, and the Hubble Space
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Saturn's changing spin was an illusion caused by its aurora
Saturn was never changing its spin. For decades, measurements made the planet look like it was speeding up and
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A Spiral Galaxy Is Being Dragged Into the Heart of the Virgo Cluster
A spiral galaxy 47 million light years away is being pulled, slowly and inexorably, toward the center of a mas
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NASA's Roman Telescope Will Hunt Planets in the Galactic Core
NASA is about to turn a new kind of eye on the most crowded part of our galaxy. The Roman Space Telescope, set
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Finds a Black Hole That Existed Before Its Galaxy
A black hole has been found that appears to have formed before the galaxy surrounding it. That discovery, made
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Black Hole Found That Formed Before Its Galaxy
A black hole weighing 50 million times the mass of the Sun appears to have formed before the galaxy that surro
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Fermi telescope finds what fuels the universe's brightest supernovae
A supernova 440 million light years away has become the first ever to send a clear gamma ray signal to NASA's
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Webb Telescope Reveals Star Clusters in Distant Galaxy
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured images of star clusters in a galaxy so far away that its light too
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Hubble Spies a Galaxy Cluster That Warps the Fabric of Space
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of a galaxy cluster so massive that its gravity literally war
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Spain to witness first total solar eclipse since 1905 in 2026
For the first time in 121 years, mainland Spain will fall under the shadow of a total solar eclipse. On 12 Aug
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Moon and Venus Put on a Sky Show Visible to the Naked Eye
On the morning of December 7, 2024, the Moon and Venus appeared so close in the sky that they looked like a pa
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Earth's Cosmic Stalkers May Be Asteroids, Not Moon Chunks
Earth has a group of cosmic stalkers. Known as co-orbitals, these small rocks circle the sun on the same sched
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Hubble Maps the Milky Way's Chaotic Core for Roman Telescope
The center of the Milky Way is so crowded with stars that even the Hubble Space Telescope has struggled to see
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Early Quasars Unleash Galaxy-Scale Storms, New Study Finds
The most distant quasars in the universe do not just shine. They blast. A new study published in Nature reveal
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Webb Reveals a Galaxy So Bright It Overwhelms Its Own Camera
A galaxy 45 million light years away is so bright at its center that it overwhelms the cameras designed to cap
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NASA Telescope Will Hunt for Hidden Neutron Stars Across the Galaxy
The universe is full of dead stars that refuse to go quietly. But many of them have been nearly impossible to
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Massive Star Clusters Clear Their Clouds Faster, Webb and Hubble Show
Bigger star clusters do not hang around in their dusty cradles for long. New observations from the James Webb
