This image taken using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) shows Arp 107, a celestial object that includes a pair of galaxies in the midst of a collision. The larger object (left) is an ...
Astronomy
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Japan launched a rocket Thursday carrying an X-ray telescope that will explore the origins of the universe as well as a small lunar lander.
Space Exploration
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The universe is expanding; we've had evidence of that for about a century. But just how quickly celestial objects are receding from each other is still up for debate.
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The cosmos is a unique laboratory for testing the laws of physics, in particular those of Euler and Einstein. Euler described the movements of celestial objects, while Einstein described the way in which celestial objects ...
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Jun 22, 2023
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You may have heard about an asteroid set to fly near Earth that is the size of 18 platypus, or maybe the one that's the size of 33 armadillos, or even one the size of 22 tuna fish.
Astronomy
Apr 18, 2023
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Though we live in a vast three-dimensional universe, celestial objects seen through a telescope look flat because everything is so far away. Now for the first time, astronomers have measured the three-dimensional shape of ...
Astronomy
Apr 13, 2023
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This luminous image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows , a celestial object that lies about 390 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. Z 229-15 is one of those interesting celestial objects ...
Astronomy
Apr 3, 2023
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ICRAR researchers have discovered tantalizing evidence of magnetic fields in the universe's largest cosmic structures.
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Feb 16, 2023
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More than 500 astronomers from all over Europe, including members of Catalan universities and research centers—the UPC and the ICCUB—have designed and planned a total of five years of operations for the WEAVE spectrograph, ...
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Feb 7, 2023
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A mysterious and very distant object, in a universe as it was 'just' two billion years after the Big Bang, hides from even the most advanced instruments. Its features have finally been described by a team from SISSA in a ...
Astronomy
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