A new industrial megaproject threatens the view of the world's best observatories
Astronomers have been battling threats to their clear skies on all fronts lately. One of the most notable battles, which we ...
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James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...
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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Was Never Meant to Look at the Sun. Astronomers Tried It Anyway
A little-known chapter of the Hubble Space Telescope’s history is a reminder of the risks of looking at the sun ...
Revolutionary Telescope Captures Sharpest View Ever of a Supermassive Black Hole in Action
Astronomers have captured the most detailed infrared images yet of an active galactic nucleus (AGN), using the Large ...
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This tiny galaxy is answering some big questions
Leo P, a small galaxy and a distant neighbor of the Milky Way, is lighting the way for astronomers to better understand star formation and how a galaxy grows. Scientists have reported finding that Leo ...
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'Totally amazing' astronaut photo captures comet C/2024 G3 ATLAS shooting past Earth from the ISS
NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in ...
NASA's Pandora mission one step closer to probing alien atmospheres
Pandora, NASA's newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which ...
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Watch 2 NASA astronauts repair X-ray telescope on ISS during a spacewalk today
The two astronauts have a busy day ahead of them. Hague and Williams will "patch light leaks in the NICER X-ray telescope, ...
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Hubble Telescope sees rare supernova explosion as a violent 'pale blue dot' (image)
A newly released Hubble pic shows the galaxy LEDA 22057, where the supernova explosion occurred. The spiral galaxy's swirling ...
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Russian telescopes perform over 1,000 measurements of solar system's small bodies in 2024 - institute
"In 2024, Russian telescopes performed 1,231 astro-photometric measurements [determination of the brightness of a celestial body] of small bodies in the solar system, including potentially dangerous ...