With the help of machine-learning techniques, a team of astronomers has discovered a dozen quasars that…
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Astronomy
NICER Finds X-ray Boosts in the Crab Pulsar’s Radio Bursts
A global science collaboration using data from NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) telescope on…
Trio of Fast-Spinning Brown Dwarfs May Reveal a Rotational Speed Limit
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have identified the three fastest-spinning brown dwarfs ever…
Dark Energy Survey Physicists Open New Window Into Dark Energy
The universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate, and while no one is sure why, researchers…
Hubble Spots Double Quasars In Merging Galaxies
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is “seeing double.” Peering back 10 billion years into the universe’s past,…
New Study Finds Satellites Contribute Significant Light Pollution To Night Skies
Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are…
Stellar Eggs Near Galactic Center Hatching Into Baby Stars
Astronomers found a number of stellar eggs containing baby stars around the center of the Milky…
Hubble Spots a Galaxy with a Peculiar Arm
This image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features NGC 7678 – a galaxy with…
New Light On Baryonic Matter And Gravity On Cosmic Scales
Scientists estimate that dark matter and dark energy together are some 95% of the gravitational material…
The First Image Of A Black Hole’s Magnetic Fields
Astronomers have now obtained a new view of the supermassive black hole at the center of…