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These 7 Stunning Space Images Show the Universe Through the Largest Digital Camera Ever Built
2+ hour, 2+ min ago (551+ words) This giant camera can photograph millions of galaxies in a single image....
Astronomers Got an Unusually Sharp Look at Betelgeuse. They Found a Lumpy Star With a Hotspot That Won’t Budge
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (625+ words) New ALMA images show a distorted atmosphere and a hotspot surviving far longer than models predict. Betelgeuse looks less like a perfect sphere than a boiling, misshapen blob. In some of the sharpest submillimeter images yet made of the famous…...
Moon Dust May Be Hiding a 100-Million-Year Record of Exploding Stars
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (337+ words) Thanks to our Moon, astronomers can learn more about supernovae and past stars....
A Provocative Theory by NASA Scientists Asks: What If We Weren't the First Advanced Civilization on Earth?
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (404+ words) The Silurian Hypothesis asks whether signs of truly ancient past civilizations would even be recognisable today....
A Meteor Crashed Into Mars and Sent Shockwaves Racing Across the Planet. It Apparently Happens More Often Than We Thought
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (323+ words) There's a hidden "seismic highway" beneath Mars' surface. On February 19, 2021, a rock from space slammed into Mars, carving a 21.5-meter-wide crater and sending seismic waves rippling across the planet. These waves traveled exactly 1,640 kilometers before reaching NASA’s InSight lander, which…...
A Comet Photobombed a Powerful Telescope and Revealed Something Astronomers Rarely See
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (540+ words) The accidental image exposed a comet surface unlike the asteroids it resembles. The accidental appearance of Comet 28P/Neujmin by the Subaru Telescope gave researchers a rare look directly at its solid nucleus. It also showed astronomers something they weren’t expecting....
The Fastest Star in the Milky Way Races Around the Milky Way’s Black Hole at 8% the Speed of Light
1+ week, 15+ hour ago (367+ words) The faint star S301 may turn the Milky Way’s black hole into a relativity laboratory. At the center of the Milky Way, an otherwise ordinary star is moving at an extraordinary speed. That orbit is extraordinarily stretched. S301 swings from far outside…...
Astronomers Baffled by 3 Feeding Supermassive Black Holes Packed Into Early Galaxy When the Universe Was Barely a Billion Years Old
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1172+ words) The crowded system may reveal how early black holes grew so quickly. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope say that a super distant galaxy appears to contain not one growing black hole, but three — all actively feeding on surrounding…...
Venus Highlights a Big Problem With How We Measure Alien Planets
1+ week, 6+ day ago (15+ words) A slowly rotating planet can become a hellscape, but initial looks can often be deciving....
The Milky Way’s Giant Neighbor, Andromeda, May Be Slowly Shutting Down New Stars
1+ week, 6+ day ago (620+ words) Hubble reveals a 500-million-year slowdown in the galaxy next door....