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Solar eclipse 2024: Live updates
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoLooking for an app to help track the eclipse? The popular astronomy app will help you stay up-to-the-second with this week's 'ring of fire.' (Image...
Quasar from early universe upends theory about SMBH formation
Interesting Engineering· 6 hours agoObserved as it was less than 760 million years after the Big Bang, this quasar is one of the earliest ever sighted, offering a crucial glimpse into the conditions of the nascent cosmos. A quasar ...
Cosmic Revelations: AI and NASA Swift Map the Universe’s Farthest Gamma-Ray Bursts
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoMachine learning revolutionizes distance measurement in astronomy, providing precise estimates for...
Vatican Astronomy: A Scientific Model for Peaceful Debate
Weston Forum· 6 days agoIn a world full of wars and hatred, science can be a model for peaceful interaction, according to...
The Solar System Is Weirder Than You Think
Hackaday· 18 hours agoWhen I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. It’s a great story...
Something 'kicked' this hypervelocity star racing through the Milky Way at 1.3 million miles per...
Space via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoA low-mass star races through the Milky Way at over a million miles per hour, a journey that began...
The unexpected behavior of pulsing stars could help us measure the universe
Space via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoNew research offers the most precise measurements yet of pulsating Cepheid stars, which may hold...
A Peek Inside a Transforming Star Factory: Hubble’s Breathtaking View
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoHubble’s image of RCW 7 reveals massive protostars in the Puppis constellation transforming a...
Black holes formed quasars less than a billion years after Big Bang
Ars Technica· 12 hours agoSupermassive black holes appear to be present at the center of every galaxy, going back to some of...
Einstein Telescope Launches New Era In Astronomy
PhotonicsOnline· 6 days agoIt’s still just a plan, but a new telescope could soon be measuring gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are something like the sound waves of the universe. The future gravitational wave ...