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A Star Came too Close to a Black Hole. It Didn’t End Well

Black holes are confounding objects that stretch physics to its limits. The most massive ones lurk in the...

Webb Stares Deeply Into the Universe, Showing How Galaxies Assemble

The James Webb Space Telescope is delivering a deluge of images and data to eager scientists and other hungry-minded...

Hubble and Spitzer Team up to Find a Pair of Waterworld Exoplanets

As of December 19th, 2022, 5,227 extrasolar planets have been confirmed in 3,908 systems, with over 9,000 more awaiting...

JWST Sees Furious Star Formation in a Stellar Nursery

The powerful James Webb Space Telescope is a mighty technological tool. Astrophysicists first conceived it over 20 years...

Astronomers Spot Three Interacting Systems with Twin Discs

According to the most widely-accepted theory about star formation (Nebular Hypothesis), stars and planets form from huge clouds of...

Hubble Sees a Glittering Jewel in the Small Magellanic Cloud. But the Jewel is Disappearing

As far as we know, nobody lives in our neighbour, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC. ) So it’s okay...

To Fight Climate Change, We Could Block the Sun. A Lightweight Solar Sail Could Make it Feasible

Can we build an enormous umbrella to dim the Sun? Such a feat would be a megaproject on a...

A new 3D map of the Milky Way Uses close to 66,000 Stars and Reveals New Details About the Shape of our Galaxy

In the 17th century, Galileo Galilee aimed his telescope at the stars and demonstrated (for the first time) that...

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