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Quartz· 6 days agoNASA launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, and in the decades since scientists have benefitted from its unprecedented views far beyond our galaxy. NASA will need to ...
How neutron stars 'playing it cool' could unlock exotic physics
SPACE.com· 2 days agoThe discovery was made by a Spanish team led by Alessio Marino of the Institute of Space Sciences...
A massive black hole may be 'waking up' in a nearby galaxy
SPACE.com· 4 days ago"This behavior is unprecedented," Paula Sánchez-Sáez, an astronomer at the European Southern...
Something 'kicked' this hypervelocity star racing through the Milky Way at 1.3 million miles per...
SPACE.com· 6 days agoIf you were attacked by a ravenous vampire star or were at risk of falling into two dueling black...
The unexpected behavior of pulsing stars could help us measure the universe
SPACE.com· 6 days agoNew research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold clues about the immense size and scale of our universe. Cepheids are a type of variable star ...
How 2 quasars at the dawn of time could be a Rosetta stone for the early universe
SPACE.com· 5 days agoQuasars are rapidly growing supermassive black holes in the cores of hyperactive galaxies. Torrents...
June solstice 2024 brings changing seasons to Earth on June 20 — What to know
SPACE.com· 4 days agoSummer will officially arrive in the Northern Hemisphere on Thursday (June 20) at 4:51 p.m. EDT (2051 GMT) — the June Solstice. At that moment, the sun will reach the point at which it's farthest ...