Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes actually capture. - Vox
Soon, we may get to see one up close for the first time.
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Solving a 600-Year-Old Cosmic Mystery
The Atlantic, "Astronomers have found the stars responsible for an explosion recorded by Korean astronomers in 1437 A.D.
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The Multiverse Is Inevitable, And We’re Living In It
Medium, 2017: "If you thought all we could see is all that’s out there, prepare to rethink everything you knew...Imagine that the Universe we obse...
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New Evidence Points to Icy Plate Tectonics on Europa
Jupiter’s moon Europa features a warm subterranean ocean covered in ice. For years, scientists have wondered if certain surface features are the re...
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After 37 years, Voyager 1 has fired up its trajectory thrusters | Ars Technica
This week, the scientists and engineers on the Voyager team did something very special.
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International Space Station - Google Maps
virtually explore the International Space Station - Google Maps
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Armed with tough computer chips, scientists are ready to return to the hell of Venus
Silicon carbide transistors could let landers survive for months rather than hours
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Astronomers unveil secrets of interstellar visitor
Technology & Science - CBC News Astronomers say they've learned more about the first known object to enter our solar system from deep space, inc...
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Nasa to hold major announcement after artificial intelligence makes planet-hunting breakthrough
Nasa is holding a major press conference after its planet-hunting telescope made a new breakthrough. The Kepler space telescope is operated by Nasa...
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Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua covered in 'thick crust of carbon-rich gunk' | Science | The Guardian
Cigar-shaped body has a deep surface layer made of organic ices baked in interstellar radiation – and potentially has ice in its heart, say astrono...
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Observable Universe contains ten times more galaxies than previously thought | ESA/Hubble
Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes and other telescopes have performed an accurate census of the number of galaxies i...
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Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice
Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars' surface are exposed in ...
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How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe | TED
Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she’s an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes....
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Space out with planets in Google Maps
Now you can visit many planets and moons in Google Maps right from your computer.
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How an Amateur Astronomer Became One of History’s Greatest Solar Observers
Atlas Obscura, 2017: "A Woman Who Spent Her Life Observing the Sun Is Finally Getting Scientific Recognition. Hisako Koyama is being lauded for ...
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Black Holes Explained – From Birth to Death
Black holes. Lets talk about them. Support us on Patreon so we can make more stuff
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NASA reveals major delay for $8-billion Hubble successor
Setback for James Webb Space Telescope could have broader effects on agency’s astrophysics programme.
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All disk galaxies rotate once every billion years | Astronomy.com
In a study published March 14 in The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers announced the discovery that all galaxies rotat...
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A Visiting Star Jostled Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago
Around the same time our ancestors left Africa, a dim red dwarf star came to within 0.8 light-years of our Sun, marking the closest known flyby of ...
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Why Earth is Closest to Sun in Dead of Winter
If Earth is closest to the Sun in January, shouldn’t it be summer?
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Hubble finds first galaxy in the local Universe without dark matter
An international team of researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and several other observatories have, for the first time, uncovered ...
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Dozen black holes found at galactic centre - BBC News
A dozen black holes may lie at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way, researchers say.
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A short new movie of a comet’s surface is pretty incredible | Ars Technica
Bright dots that look like snow are in fact stars...
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Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space
The perfect circle surrounding a galaxy cluster in a new Hubble Space Telescope image is a visual indicator of the huge masses that are bending tim...
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Billion-star map of Milky Way set to transform astronomy | Nature
European Gaia spacecraft’s first major data dump — the most detailed 3D chart yet of our Galaxy — will keep researchers busy for decades...
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Space Is Full Of Planets, And Most Of Them Don't Even Have Stars - Forbes
For every planet that orbits a star like our own, there are likely thousands of 'orphan planets' wandering the galaxy alone...
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A Trillion Worlds
Big-data statistics have revealed, among other things, that our own solar system is kind of an oddball... "The Milky Way contains over a tr...
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These are the stars the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft will encounter - MIT Technology Review
As the four craft exit our solar system, a 3D map of the Milky Way reveals which others they’re likely to visit tens of thousands of years on.
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