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Astronomers Watched a Fast Radio Burst Go Right Through a Star's Atmosphere
There's So Much Going on in This Star-Forming Nebula
Look at this beautiful image of the Lupus 3 star-forming interstellar cloud captured by the Dark Energy Camera.
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Remember Those Impossibly Massive Galaxies? They May Be Even More Massive
A new analysis of those James Webb images showed that the galaxies it observed (deemed "too massive") could be even more massive than we thought!
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The Private Axiom-2 Mission is Almost Ready to Fly to the International Space Station
Not All Type 1a Supernovae are Created Equally
New research shows that there are variations in how white dwarfs explode.
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Artemis V is Going to the Moon With Blue Origin
ESO is Using a New System to Allocate Telescope Time. It's Working Well
New Climate Model Accurately Predicts Millions of Years of Ice Ages
New research by a team of Japanese climatologists and an astronomer shows how astronomical forces have caused major changes in Earth's climate.
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An Astronomical First! A Radiation Belt Seen Outside the Solar System
For the first time, a team of astronomers has imaged the radiation belt of an object from beyond the Solar System.
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Astronomers Want to Build the Next Generation Arecibo Telescope
When the Arecibo Telescope collapsed in 2020, astronomers lost one of the world's most powerful radio telescopes. A team of astronomers wants to resurrect the mighty telescope with the Next Generation Arecibo Telescope.
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The Largest Explosion Ever Seen in the Universe
Astronomers have witnessed the most powerful supernova on record, which could provide insight into the forces that shape galaxies.
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A Brief History of the Discovery of Cosmic Voids
Building a Satellite out of Wood? Use Magnolia
Mars Has a Thick Crust. Its Internal Heat Mainly Comes from Radioactivity
Could We Resurrect the Spitzer Space Telescope?
Fatty Acids Might Exist in Space
A Few Interstellar Objects Have Probably Been Captured
Astronomers Find an Earth-Sized World That May Be Carpeted in Volcanoes
Saturn's Rings are Much Younger Than the Planet
Scientists know how quickly dust builds up and allows them to measure in Saturn's rings, and it points to a recent formation.
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Four of Uranus' Moons Might Have Liquid Oceans, Too
JWST Finds a Comet Still Holding Onto Water in the Main Asteroid Belt
Astronomers Prepare for the Next Thousand Years of Hazardous Asteroid Impacts
Life Probably Didn't Have a Hand in Creating Organic Deposits on the Surface of Mars
Using data from the ESA's Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), new research shows that organic material on Mars may not be an indication of past life.
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Kathy Lueders Was NASA's Top Human Spaceflight Official. Now She Works for SpaceX
Astronomers Have a New Way to Measure the Expansion of the Universe
A new method of measuring cosmic expansion uses multiple observations of a supernova in a lensed galaxy.
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An Innovative Heat Shield That Doesn't Need to Be Replaced Between Missions
Astronomers Want Your Help to Identify Risky Asteroids
It's Time to Figure Out How to Land Large Spacecraft Safely on Other Worlds
Seismic Waves Help Map the Core of Mars for the First Time
The Moon has a Solid Core Like the Earth
A new study by a team of French researchers has confirmed that the Moon has a solid inner core.
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Astronomers Find a "Red Nova": A Main-Sequence Star Just Eating its Planet
Galactic Black Hole Winds Blow Up to a Third the Speed of Light. The Impact on Their Galaxies is Impressive.
A new study by the SUper massive Black hole Winds in the x-rAYS (SUBWAYS) project explores the role of "space winds" in shaping galaxies.
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New Clues to the Formation of Globular Clusters: Their Ultramassive Stars
New images from JWST have revealed the light from a globular cluster in this earliest epoch, showing that it contains large amounts of nitrogen produced by the explosions from early stars.
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NASA Shuts Down the Lunar Flashlight Mission After it Fails to Go into Orbit
NASA Tests a Robotic Snake That Could Explore Other Worlds
Hurray! Juice Deploys its Stuck Antenna
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-creates-in-space-servicing-assembly-manufacturing-consortium">NASA is Getting Serious About Building and Assembling Future Missions... in Space</a>
What Cassini's "Grand Finale" Taught Us About Saturn's Interior
62 New Moons Found for Saturn
ESA Wants Your Ideas for Living off the Land… on the Moon
Two Super-Earths Found Orbiting a Red Dwarf Star at the Edge of the Habitable Zone
NASA's TESS mission has turned up hundreds of planets and planetary candidates, and here are two more.
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The Moon Occults Jupiter Wednesday Morning for North America
Be sure to set your alarm for early Wednesday morning, for one of the best occultations of 2023.
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Confirmed. Ultra-Luminous X-Ray Sources are Really That Bright
Black Holes Might be Defects in Spacetime
The Earth's Magnetosphere Could be Used as a Gravitational Wave Observatory
The magnetospheres of Earth and Jupiter might be used to observe high-frequency gravitational waves.
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New Photos Show Collapsed Chains of Craters on a Martian Volcano
NASA Thinks They Can Give us 30 Minutes of Warning Before a Killer Solar Storm Hits Earth
This Star Might be Orbiting a Strange "Boson Star"
Perseverance Finds an Ancient, Fast Flowing River
JWST Looks at the Atmosphere of a Stormy, Steamy Mini-Neptune
