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Thanks to its efficiency at infrared wavelengths and the sharpness of the images of the JWST, researchers have been able to explore the intracluster light from SMACS-J0723.3-7327 with an unprecedented level of detail.
Dec 3rd, 2022
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The observations could illuminate how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
Dec 1st, 2022
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Astronomers have been able to piece together data showing that a supermassive black hole has been snacking on a nearby star.
Nov 30th, 2022
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Pioneering a new technique, researchers have peered into the extremely faint light that exists between galaxies to describe the history and state of orphan stars.
Nov 24th, 2022
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An international team of scientists has observed the narrowing of a quasar jet for the first time by using a network of radio telescopes across the world. The results suggest that the narrowing of the jet is independent of the activity level of the galaxy which launched it.
Nov 22nd, 2022
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just scored another first: a molecular and chemical profile of a distant world's skies.
Nov 22nd, 2022
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An ambitious new collaboration promises to expand our understanding of what some physicists have called the 'glue' that holds the universe together - the strong nuclear force.
Nov 18th, 2022
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Astronomers reconstructed the origin of an unusual gravitational wave signal that may result from the merger of two massive black holes that captured each other in their gravitational field and then collided while spinning around each other in a rapid, eccentric motion.
Nov 18th, 2022
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Is there life in Martian caves? It's a good question, but it's not the right question - yet. An international collaboration of scientists has dozens of questions we need asked and answered. Once we figure out how to study caves on the Moon, Mars and other planetary bodies, then we can return to that question.
Nov 16th, 2022
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Using a simulation method based on random numbers scientists were able to describe the properties of warm dense hydrogen as accurately as never before.
Nov 15th, 2022
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Space scientists may need to rethink how gamma-ray bursts are formed after new research shows new-born supramassive stars, not black holes, are sometimes responsible for these huge extragalactic bursts of energy.
Nov 11th, 2022
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The study of the explosions of red super-giant stars tallies with the current understanding of how the heavier atomic elements were created inside stars and during supernova explosions.
Nov 10th, 2022
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Radiation damage to photovoltaics in orbit can be reduced by making the cells thinner.
Nov 8th, 2022
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Astrophysicists say that cosmic inflation - a point in the Universe's infancy when space-time expanded exponentially, and what physicists really refer to when they talk about the 'Big Bang' - can in principle be ruled out in an assumption-free way.
Nov 5th, 2022
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Astronomers have identified the oldest star in our galaxy that is accreting debris from orbiting planetesimals, making it one of the oldest rocky and icy planetary systems discovered in the Milky Way.
Nov 5th, 2022
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Gemini North telescope on Hawai'i reveals first dormant, stellar-mass black hole in our cosmic backyard.
Nov 4th, 2022
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Early crust on Mars may be more complex than previously thought - and it may even be similar to our own planet's original crust.
Nov 4th, 2022
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Researchers' recent observations of a stellar-mass black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot matter in the region immediately surrounding the black hole.
Nov 3rd, 2022
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