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For the first time, astronomers watch a black hole ‘wake up’ in real-time
Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.
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News You Can Use: How to See the Stars Like an Astronomer
Venus is very bright right now and can be seen with the naked eye just after sunset. Using a telescope, backyard astronomers ...
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Astronomers discovered 44 ancient stars using gravitational lensing—an astrophysicist explains how they did it
The astronomers detected 44 stars in the "Dragon Arc" galaxy, located 6.5 billion light years away from our own Milky Way, using NASA's ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope. However ...
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Three new planets found around Barnard’s Star
Combining with one other previously confirmed planet, one of our closest stellar neighbors now has a family of four.
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Astronomer reviews the sci-fi movies that get creative with physics
For example, during an explosive space battle scene in Star Trek, a crew member is tossed out into space and suddenly into ...
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Black holes and the new way astronomers using Gaia probe found the closest known to Earth
They are objects so massive they warp space and time to a point that even light cannot escape their pull, making them invisible. In the past, astronomers have found them by using X-ray and radio ...
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Astronomers have finally found the edge of the Milky Way galaxy
A team of astronomers from England used that farthest point to determine that the diameter of the Milky Way is 1.9 million light-years ... found its far edge.Using nearby galaxies as a guide ...
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Four planets found orbiting a star 6 light-years from Earth
Astronomers have discovered four planets that are just a fraction of the mass of Earth orbiting Barnard’s Star, which is 6 ...