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Saturn's planet-wide storms driven by seasonal heating, Cassini probe reveals
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoA large storm churning through the atmosphere in Saturn's northern hemisphere, as seen by NASA's...
First-of-Its-Kind Detection Made in Striking New W | Newswise
Newswise· 5 days agoFor the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to directly image has been captured by...
Sino-French satellite launched
China Daily· 1 day agoThe Space Variable Objects Monitor spacecraft is a combination of small telescopes. It was placed in a low-Earth orbit by a Chinese Long March 2C carrier ...
Slow-Motion Supernovae Prove Einstein Right Again
Scientific American· 4 days agoDespite more than a century of efforts to show otherwise, it seems Albert Einstein can still do no wrong. Or at least that’s the case for his special...
Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole awaken in real time
CNN via Yahoo News· 6 days agoM. Keck Observatory in Hawaii and NASA’s space-based Neil Gehrels Swift and Chandra X-ray......
The Calif. observatory that changed how we think about the universe
San Francisco Chronicle· 6 days agoOn Jan. 1, 1925, astronomer Edwin Hubble completely changed the way we view the universe and our...
Explained: How Did Saturn Get Its Rings?
ExtremeTech· 1 day agoNothing else in the Solar System is quite like Saturn. Four of our planets have rings, but Saturn's are enormous and complex, in a class of their own. Just after the turn of the 17th century ...
NASA deepens mystery of inexplicable black hole
Newsweek· 22 hours agoThe mysteries of a very ancient and massive black hole are being unraveled using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This supermassive black hole, ...
Small stars swarm around the black hole – 'like a chaotic swarm of bees'
Weston Forum· 7 hours agoIn 2023, a newly discovered small star called X3a near the black hole in our galaxy (Sagittarius A*) is causing a stir. Researchers originally assumed that only ancient stars could settle near ...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 7 days agoThe Rubin Observatory’s key goal is the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), a sweeping, near-constant observation of space. This endeavor will ...
