Science

Staff at Berkeley Lab’s X-Ray Facility Mobilize to Support COVID-19-Related Research

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ALS Beamline 5.0.1, pictured here, is one of the beamlines that has been enlisted for COVID-19-...

Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler Data

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This artist's concept shows what exoplanet Kepler-1649c could look like on its surface. The planet is the closest to Earth...

Event Horizon Telescope observes a black hole-powered jet

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The multi-wavelength 3C 279 jet structure...

Gemini Detects Most Energetic Wind from Distant Quasar

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The image at left shows an artist’s conception of the central portion of the galaxy that hosts the quasar SDSS J135246.37+423923.5...

New research helps explain why the solar wind is hotter than expected

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The solar wind causes events such auroras, like this one photographed by a U.S. astronaut after docking...

Discovery of a Young Blazar Produced by the Merger of Two Galaxies

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The galaxy TXS 2116-077 (seen on the right) collides with another spiral-shaped galaxy of similar mass, creating a relativistic...

NASA Successfully Tests Telemetry Signal on Agency’s First All-Electric X-plane

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Telemetry testing begins on the X-57 Maxwell, NASA’s first all-electric X-plane, as the operations crew at NASA’s...

Explosion

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A GIF cycles between an image of V906 Carinae taken on April 7, 2018, about 18 days after...