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Extreme magnetic fields near our galaxy's black hole are preventing stars from being born, JWST discovers
Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...
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Gaia telescope retires: Scientists bid farewell to 'the discovery machine of the decade' that mapped 2 billion Milky Way stars
After 11 years mapping the Milky Way, the European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has retired. Scientists hailed it as ...
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NASA's SPHEREx telescope 'opens its eyes on the universe', taking stunning debut image of 100,000 galaxies and stars
SPHEREx's first images — containing roughly 100,000 points of light stars, galaxies and nebulae — have confirmed that the ...
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Hubble Telescope captures gorgeous new view of Milky Way's star-packed galactic neighbor (photo)
Using Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, astronomers captured this recent up-close view of the SMC, full of twinkling ...
Astronomers listened to the 'music' of flickering stars—and discovered an unexpected feature
The "music" of starquakes—enormous vibrations caused by bursting bubbles of gas that ripple throughout the bodies of many ...
Webb explores effect of strong magnetic fields on star formation
Follow-up research on a 2023 image of the Sagittarius C stellar nursery in the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, captured by ...
James Webb dives into the heart of the Milky Way to study star formation
Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...
The best space telescope you never heard of just shut down
On Thursday 27 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) sent its last messages to the Gaia Spacecraft. They told Gaia to shut ...
Meteors, micro moon and ‘city of stars’ to appear above California. Here’s when
Californians can glimpse up to 15 meteors each hour under cloudless skies while the Lyrid meteor shower is underway. The ...
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From Worlds That Look Like Cotton Candy to Others Covered in Volcanoes, These Are the Strangest and Most Captivating Exoplanets
Scientists are using an array of instruments to detect other planets, some of which may harbor life—and others that most ...