Science

In a First, NASA Measures Wind Speed on a Brown Dwarf

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This artist's concept shows a brown dwarf, an object that is at least 13 times...

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Rethinking cosmology: Universe expansion may not be uniform

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Cosmic expansion measured across the sky.

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Black Hole Bends Light Back on Itself

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This illustration shows how some of the light coming from a disk around a black...

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New “refrigerator” super-cools molecules to nanokelvin temperatures

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A new “refrigerator” super-cools molecules to nanokelvin temperatures. The technique may enable...

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Origins of Earth’s magnetic field remain a mystery

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This visualization shows the magnetic field around Earth, or the magnetosphere. Earth’s...

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Jets from a Galaxy Collision

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Artist's impression of an active galaxy sporting a relativistic jet.

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New EHT Images Reveal a Writhing Relativistic Jet Deep in the Heart of Black Hole System

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New EHT Images Reveal a Writhing Relativistic Jet Deep in the Heart of Black Hole System

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Researchers pin down a quantum mechanical anomaly in electromagnetism

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Figure 1. Under electromagnetic duality, an electrically charged particle is...

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