Science

NEW SURVEY FINDS THAT SINGLE BURST OF STAR FORMATION CREATED MILKY WAY’S CENTRAL BULGE

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Collects Significant Amount of Asteroid

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Captured by the spacecraft’s SamCam camera on Oct. 22, 2020, this series of three images shows that the sampler head on NASA’s...

Pluto's Ice Caps Made of Methane, Turns Earth's Process Upside Down

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Pluto as seen from data taken by New Horizon's flyby in 2015 of the dwarf planet, with a...

The Monster in the Middle of the Milky Way Is…Spinning Slowly?

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Death by Spaghettification: ESO Telescopes Record Last Moments of Star Devoured by a Black Hole

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Massive Stars Are Factories for Ingredients to Life

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Illustration of a dusty disc rotating around a massive newborn star that’s about 40...

Hubble Observes Spectacular Supernova Time-Lapse

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The NASA/ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has tracked the fading light of a supernova in the spiral galaxy NGC 2525, located 70...

ESO telescope spots galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole

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With the help of ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have found six galaxies lying around a supermassive black hole...