Chinese Astronomers Detect an Interesting (Probably not Alien) Signal With the FAST Radio Observatory
The 500-Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), (aka. Tianyan, “Eye of Heaven”), is the largest radio observatory in the world. Since
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Astronomy
Hubble Finds a Bunch of Galaxies That Webb Should Check out
The Universe is full of massive galaxies like ours, but astronomers don’t fully understand how they grew and evolved. They
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Solar Orbiter’s Pictures of the Sun are Every Bit as Dramatic as You Were Hoping
On March 26th, the ESA’s Solar Orbiter made its closest approach to the Sun so far. It ventured inside Mercury’s
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In Some Places, Black Holes are Tearing Apart Thousands of Stars at a Time
At the heart of the more massive galaxies in the Universe, there are supermassive black holes (SMBHs) so powerful that
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A New Record! Hubble Detects an Individual Star From a Time When the Universe Was Less Than a Billion Years Old
A star that sounds as if it came from “The Lord of the Rings” now marks one of the Hubble
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Neutron Star
In this series we are exploring the weird and wonderful world of astronomy jargon! You’ll feel a little dense after reading
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The Expanding Debris Cloud From the Kilonova Tells the Story of What Happens When Neutron Stars Collide
When two neutron stars collide, it creates a kilonova. The event causes both gravitational waves and emissions of electromagnetic energy.
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One of Life’s Building Blocks can Form in Space
Peptides are one of the smallest biomolecules and are one of life’s critical building blocks. New research shows that they
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Astronomers Find the Biggest Structure in the Milky Way, a Filament of Hydrogen 1,600 Light-Years Long
Roughly 13.8 billion years ago, our Universe was born in a massive explosion that gave rise to the first subatomic
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A Nearby Dwarf Galaxy has a Surprisingly Massive Black Hole in its Heart
Since the 1970s, scientists have known that within the cores of most massive galaxies in the Universe, there beats the
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