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How neutron stars 'playing it cool' could unlock exotic physics
SPACE.com· 3 days agoThe discovery was made by a Spanish team led by Alessio Marino of the Institute of Space Sciences...
Gateway - Quartz
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 ...
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 ...