Neptune and rings shine in photos from new space telescope
Neptune and its rings haven't looked this good in decades.
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Stampede2 supercomputer simulates star seeding, heating effects of primordial black holes
Just milliseconds after the universe's Big Bang, chaos reigned. Atomic nuclei fused and broke apart in hot, frenzied motion. Incredibly strong pressure waves built up and squeezed matter so tightly together that black holes ...
Astronomy
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Astronomers develop novel way to 'see' the first stars through the fog of the early universe
A team of astronomers has developed a method that will allow them to "see" through the fog of the early universe and detect light from the first stars and galaxies.
Astronomy
Jul 21, 2022
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Gemini South telescope's GHOST spectrograph captures first light observations of a bright, chemically rich star
Gemini South, one of the world's most productive and powerful optical-infrared telescopes, has received a major capability boost with the successful installation of a new high-resolution spectrograph called GHOST constructed ...
Astronomy
Jul 20, 2022
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Webb begins hunt for the first stars and habitable worlds
The first stunning images from the James Webb Space Telescope were revealed this week, but its journey of cosmic discovery has only just begun.
Astronomy
Jul 14, 2022
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An ocean of galaxies awaits: New COMAP radio survey
Sometime around 400 million years after the birth of our universe, the first stars began to form. The universe's so-called dark ages came to an end and a new light-filled era began. More and more galaxies began to take shape ...
Astronomy
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Thousands of galaxies shine in ultraviolet light in new Hubble image
A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is brimming with distant galaxies in an assortment of shapes. Some are seen face-on and appear oval or as disks or spirals, while others are seen edge-on and look more like cigars. ...
Astronomy
Jun 14, 2022
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Scientists have spotted the farthest galaxy ever
An international team of astronomers, including researchers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, has spotted the most distant astronomical object ever: a galaxy.
Astronomy
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Black holes and dark matter—are they one and the same?
Primordial black holes created in the first instants after the Big Bang—tiny ones smaller than the head of a pin and supermassive ones covering billions of miles—may account for all of the dark matter in the universe.
General Physics
Jan 4, 2022
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NASA's new space telescope 'hunky-dory' after problems fixed
NASA's new space telescope is on the verge of completing the riskiest part of its mission—unfolding and tightening a huge sunshade—after ground controllers fixed a pair of problems, officials said Monday.
Space Exploration
Jan 3, 2022
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