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A Tether Covered in Solar Panels Could Boost the ISS’s Orbit
The ISS’s orbit is slowly decaying. While it might seem a permanent fixture in the sky,…
Habitable Worlds Could Have Formed Before the First Galaxies
What came first, galaxies or planets? The answer has always been galaxies, but new research is…
Hubble Takes a 2.5 Gigapixel Image of Andromeda
The Andromeda galaxy is our closest galactic neighbour, barring dwarf galaxies that are gravitationally bound to…
Black Holes are Spinning Faster Than Expected
There’s a Universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly.…
Webb Sees Light Echoes in a Supernova Remnant
Supernovae are one of the most useful events in all of astronomy. Scientists can directly measure…
NASA is Building a Space Telescope to Observe Exoplanet Atmospheres
The exoplanet census continues to grow. Currently, 5,819 exoplanets have been confirmed in 4,346 star systems,…
New Glenn Reaches Orbit, but Doesn’t Recover the Booster
On Thursday, January 16th, at 02:03 AM EST, Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket took off on…
Astronomers are Watching a Newly Forming Super Star Cluster
Six or seven billion years ago, most stars formed in super star clusters. That type of…
Sticks and Stones: The Molecular Clouds in the Heart of the Milky Way
The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) at the heart of the Milky Way holds a lot of…