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World's largest visible light telescope spies a galaxy cluster warping spacetime
Space via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoThe blackness of space is sprinkled with shining swirling points of light of different sizes and...
New X-ray photo shows famous Crab Nebula like never before
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis image of the Crab Nebula combines data from NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in...
Giant space doughnut? New NASA mapping reveals longstanding mysteries of iconic nebula
Sacramento Bee via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA NASA space observatory has captured one of the most historic and well-studied nebulas in a...
Astronomers discover ancient, very distant gamma-ray burst
Space via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was peering through eons and eons in September 2021 when it...
James Webb Space Telescope finds rare heavy chemical element from 'kilonova' explosion
Space via Yahoo News· 7 months agoTellurium, an element rarer than platinum on Earth, was just found in the aftermath of a violent...
Astronomers astonished by ring around frigid distant world Quaoar
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe small distant world called Quaoar, named after a god of creation in Native American mythology,...
Giant gamma-ray flare from 'recently deceased' magnetar lights up Cigar Galaxy
Space via Yahoo News· 1 month agoAstronomers have discovered a flare erupting from a highly magnetic "dead star" outside the solar...
Mystery of Where Gold and Platinum Come From Deepens After Gargantuan Cosmic Explosion
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn October 2022, an extremely bright flash caught the attention of the Gemini South telescope in...
'Weird' game of cosmic tug-of-war in the Tarantula Nebula weaves up new stars
Space via Yahoo News· 12 months agoAstronomers have observed the Tarantula Nebula at the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, finding...
Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter team up to tackle 65-year-old sun mystery
Space via Yahoo News· 9 months agoTwo views of the sun, the left looks like a yellow fiery ball of plasma while the right looks like a...