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Galaxies
Gemini North back on sky with dazzling image of supernova in the Pinwheel Galaxy
Gemini North, part of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, is back observing the night sky following the…
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Nasa
NASA Awards $5 Million to Women’s Colleges Tackling STEM Gender Gap
As part of a Biden/Harris initiative, NASA will award more than $5 million in funding to seven Women’s Colleges and…
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Nasa
NASA Invites Media to View Asteroid Sample Recovery Rehearsal
NASA invites media to attend the first major asteroid sample recovery rehearsal for its OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification,…
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Nasa
NASA Names Winners of 2023 Student Rocket Launch Competition
NASA announced Tuesday the University of Alabama in Huntsville is the overall winner of the agency’s 2023 Student Launch challenge.…
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Galaxies
What’s the (dark) matter with Euclid?
Artist impression of the Euclid mission in space. The spacecraft is white and gold and consists of three main elements:…
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Galaxies
First detection of secondary supermassive black hole in a well-known binary syst…
Artistic illustration of OJ287 as a binary black hole system. The secondary black hole of 150 million solar masses moves…
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James Webb Space Telescope
JWST spots the most distant ‘smoke’ molecules ever seen in space
A galaxy (blue; artificially coloured) helped to give the JWST a better view of organic molecules (bright orange spots) in…
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Exoplanets
Astronomers discover a new ‘warm Jupiter’ on an eccentric and misaligned orbit
TESS SPOC PDC SAP light curves and ground-based transits of TOI-1859 b. TOI-1859 b transits are labeled in blue on…
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Blackholes
Lasers pierce the stunning dark skies of the Atacama Desert
This striking image shows four powerful lasers that form part of the Very Large Telescope in the Atacama Desert, Chile.…
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Galaxies
Using statistics in a new way to decipher the universe
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The digital age has been a tremendous boon to the fields of both statistics and astronomy.…
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