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Astronomy
CW Leonis, A Carbon Star, Has Been Viewed By Hubble
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates Halloween this year with a striking observation of the carbon…
Webb And The Event Horizon Telescope Will Reveal the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
On isolated mountaintops across the planet, scientists await word that tonight is the night: The complex…
Astronomers Discover Massive Galaxy ‘Shipyard’ In The Distant Universe
In a rare glimpse at such an object, astronomers discovered a structure thought to be a…
Chandra Sees Evidence For A Possible Planet In Another Galaxy
Signs of a planet transiting a star outside of the Milky Way galaxy may have been…
Hubble Watches Arp 86 – An Intergalactic Dance
This observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showcases Arp 86, a peculiar pair of interacting…
New Galaxy Images Reveal A Fitful Start To The Universe
New images have revealed detailed clues about how the first stars and structures were formed in…
Black Holes Give Shape To Bubbles, Rings And "intergalactic smoke" Filaments
An international team of researchers, including scholars from the University of Bologna and the Italian National…
Astronomers See White Dwarf "switch on and off" For The First Time
Astronomers have used a planet-hunting satellite to see a white dwarf abruptly switching on and off…
M82: Images From Space Telescopes Produce Stunning View of Starburst Galaxy
2006 images from three of NASA’s Great Observatories were combined to create this spectacular, multiwavelength view…