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The most powerful space explosion ever seen keeps baffling astronomers
GRB221009A surrounded by dust rings ESA/XMM-Newton/M. Rigoselli (INAF) The most powerful explosion ever seen may break our understanding of how…
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How to see the moon, Venus, Jupiter and Mars line up tonight
The moon, Venus (right) and Jupiter (top) seen from Fechy, Switzerland Alistair Scott / Alamy Stock Photo Wherever you are…
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What Lit the Lamps That Let Humanity Measure the Universe
Every year, around 1,000 Type Ia supernovas erupt in the sky. These stellar explosions brighten and then fade away in…
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Tiny, Explosive ‘Jetlets’ Might Be Fueling the Solar Wind
Streaming out of the sun at a million miles an hour, the solar wind—a blistering plasma of electrons, protons, and…
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Galaxies’ missing matter may be found – but now there’s too much of it
The spiral galaxy M99, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Kasliwal Many large galaxies were long…
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No, the James Webb Space Telescope Hasn’t Broken Cosmology
The cracks in cosmology were supposed to take a while to appear. But when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)…
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Welsh island Ynys Enlli becomes Europe’s first Dark Sky Sanctuary
Ynys Enlli, located 3 kilometres off the coast of Wales and also known as Bardsey Island, is now officially one…
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A weird comet is travelling through space with a dust blob it made
Comet 108P/Ciffreo was spotted in 1985 hurtling through space alongside a strange blob of dust, and now astronomers have finally…
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Citizen Scientists Show Light Pollution Erases Stars From the Sky
Years ago, Christopher Kyba was skeptical about astronomy data collected by citizen scientists—after all, it relies on people making naked-eye…
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The Secret Lives of Neutron Stars
It’s a lot of detail about two faraway objects, especially if you consider the astrophysicists only directly observed their extremely…
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