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James Webb Telescope Reveals a Dazzling Light Show From the Milky Way’s Black Hole
Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...
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LANL’s ELROI Device Tracks Satellites, Prevents Space Collisions
Learn about Los Alamos National Laboratory's Low Resource Optical Identifier, a device that can track satellites and prevent ...
Astronomers Just Found a 3-Million-Light-Year Connection Between Galaxies
A new breakthrough in cosmic mapping has unveiled the structure of a colossal filament, part of the vast cosmic web that connects galaxies. Dark matter and gas shape these filaments, but their faint ...
Daily Galaxy on MSN4h
Mysterious X-Ray Flash From Deep Space Baffles Scientists
Astronomers analyzing archived NASA data have stumbled upon a cosmic event unlike anything seen before—a brief but intense X-ray flash from beyond the Milky Way that appeared suddenly and then ...
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Strange winds blow through this exoplanet’s atmosphere
Some exoplanets have characteristics totally alien to our Solar System. Hot Jupiters are one such type. They can have orbital ...
NASA’s Webb Telescope Reveals a Never-Ending Cosmic Firestorm at the Center of the Milky Way
Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...
Webb telescope finds Milky Way black hole never stops strobing light
A new study using NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material ...
Live Science on MSN6h
China is building a space telescope to rival the JWST — and it could survive in orbit decades longer
Chinese scientists have announced details on the upcoming China Space Station Telescope (CSST), a cutting-edge observatory ...