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Hofstra group marks longest day of year with summer solstice program on National Mall
Newsday· 4 days agoMarking the event will be a small group from Hofstra University, led by Professor Donald Lubowich,...
Black hole awakening observed for first time
Newsweek· 5 days agoAn unsuspecting galaxy named SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away from us, started shining brighter than it had ever been seen before in...
Solstices brought Mayan communities together, using monuments shaped by science and religion – and...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWitz’ K’awiil’s time. But aiming to realize his ambitious plans for his city, he seems to have found...
More than meets the eye - Nature Astronomy
Nature· 4 days agoX-ray binaries (XRBs) are systems where material is being accreted onto a compact object (white dwarf/neutron star/stellar-mass black hole) from a donor star, and as such they provide an excellent ...
Astronomers solve mystery of supermassive black hole growth
Newsweek· 2 days agoScientists may have figured out how supermassive black holes manage to grow quite so large. This...
Astronomers witness entire galaxy 'turn on the lights' in real time
Local 12 Cincinnati· 5 days agoAstronomers witnessed an entire galaxy "turn on the lights" in real time. According to Mashable,...
How We Could Turn The Earth Into A Giant Telescope
IFLScience· 6 days agoLast month, NASA announced development progress of the Pulsed Plasma Rocket, a new type of thruster that could help enable one of the coolest astronomy projects ever dreamt ...
How Indigenous peoples are reclaiming their celebrations of the summer solstice − and using them to...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA historian of astronomy writes about the role of astronomical events in Indigenous cultures − and...
A black hole 1 million times our Sun awakened — and astronomers caught the whole thing in real time
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 days agoOurs in the Milky Way is called Sagittarius A*. But scientists caught some never before seen footage...
Astronomers witness ‘sudden awakening’ of massive black hole in far-away galaxy
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 5 days ago“If so, this would be the first time that we see the activation of a massive black hole in real...
