The Star That Proved the Universe Is Bigger Than We Imagined
Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...
Unlocking the Universe’s Dark Ages: How a Quasar’s Wild Flicker Could Change Cosmic History
Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...
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Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the Universe
Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...
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Quasar discovery sheds light on early universe's rapid growth
Quasars are among the oldest, brightest objects in the universe. Formed from active galactic nuclei (AGN)—areas at the center of galaxies ... up to a million light years away from the central ...
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"We Are About To Learn Something New": Mystery Of "Little Red Dot" Galaxies Grows Weirder
A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...
Scientists use black-hole mergers to test symmetries of the universe
In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...
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Einstein Probe Detects Mysterious Blast of X-Rays From the Early Universe
Gamma-ray bursts are brief flashes of high-energy light and the most powerful explosions in the universe ... member from the Einstein Probe Science Center at the National Astronomical ...
Two mysterious fast radio bursts originated from wildly different places in space
Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...
Fast radio burst detected in 'dead' galaxy raises questions about mysterious signals
A fast radio burst, or a strong pulse of energy, was tracked to a distant long-dead galaxy that astronomers never thought ...
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3D structure of iconic Ring Nebula gives 'a brand new view of an old astronomical friend'
One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a bygone sun-like star about 2,000 ...
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Listen to The Eerie 'Sounds' From A Black Hole, Captured by NASA
NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, ...