astronomy + cosmology

Most recent stories in astronomy + cosmology

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  Jess Wallace

  

  Hubble Observes An Oddly Organized Satellite - NASA Science

  nasa.gov

  Andromeda III is one of at least 13 dwarf satellite galaxies in orbit around the Andromeda galaxy, or Messier 31, the Milky Way’s closest grand …

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  Jess Wallace

  

  New black hole visualization takes viewers beyond the brink

  phys.org - Francis Reddy

  Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer, viewers can …

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  Jess Wallace

  

  Totality Is Worth It

  The Atlantic - By Marina Koren

  A total solar eclipse is a rare opportunity to experience unadulterated communion with the cosmos. Like migratory birds guided by the stars, hundreds of thousands of Americans have flocked in the direction of today’s total solar eclipse. They have settled within a narrow strip of Earth where the …

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  Jess Wallace

  

  Webb sees dozens of young quasars in the first billion years of the universe

  phys.org - Brian Koberlein

  Within almost every galaxy is a supermassive black hole. Millions, sometimes billions of solar masses are locked within an event horizon of space and …

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  Jess Wallace

  

  The NASA Mission that Photographed Pluto in 2015 Has Discovered Something Unexpected

  Inverse - by Doris Elín Urrutia

  A NASA spacecraft has encountered a puzzling finding in this cosmic hinterland. Hundreds of thousands of icy rocks lurk around in the Kuiper Belt, a …

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  Jess Wallace

  

  

  Astronomers spotted something perplexing near the beginning of time

  Vox - Brian Resnick

  Not long after the James Webb Space Telescope came online in 2022, astronomers’ jaws hit the floor. “I remember thinking, This just can’t be right!” says Mike Boylan-Kolchin, a University of Texas Austin astronomer. The observations he’s referring to would, to you and me, seem like little smudgy red …