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World's largest visible light telescope spies a galaxy cluster warping spacetime
Space via Yahoo News· 1 month 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...
New photo of Jupiter’s volcanic moon "equivalent to taking a picture of a dime from 100 miles away"
Digital Camera World via Yahoo News· 7 days agoUsing a telescope perched on a mountain in Arizona, scientists have managed to photograph the moon...
James Webb Space Telescope finds rare heavy chemical element from 'kilonova' explosion
Space via Yahoo News· 8 months agoTellurium, an element rarer than platinum on Earth, was just found in the aftermath of a violent...
Giant gamma-ray flare from 'recently deceased' magnetar lights up Cigar Galaxy
Space via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAstronomers have discovered a flare erupting from a highly magnetic "dead star" outside the solar...
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,...
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· 1 year agoAstronomers have observed the Tarantula Nebula at the heart of the Large Magellanic Cloud, finding...