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Is the Earliest Supermassive Black Hole Mystery Solved?

One of the most intriguing puzzles in cosmology is the existence of supermassive black holes that seem to appear very…

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James Webb Space Telescope’s strange little red dots may really be ‘black hole stars’, X-ray data suggests

Finding X-rays coming from one of the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could be the…

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ESA’s Proba 3 is Unlocking Secrets of the Solar Wind

It has been a dream of astronomers and solar scientists for ages. A new mission gives solar researchers a powerful…

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Europe’s powerful Ariane 6 rocket launching 32 Amazon internet satellites early April 30: Watch it live

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket will launch 32 of Amazon's broadband-beaming satellites early Thursday morning (April 30), and you can watch…

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A Gently Glowing Galaxy

ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. J. Koss, A. J. Barth A luminous swirl set against the deep black of space, the…

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Falcon 9 rocket stage projected to impact moon’s near side in August

A spent Falcon 9 stage used to launch a pair of commercial lunar landers is projected to impact the moon…

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The Sun’s Impossible Floating Mountains

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have produced the most detailed simulations ever of solar prominences.…

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Our Galaxy Has a Hot Side and Now We Know Why

Our Galaxy's halo of hot gas is measurably warmer on one side than the other and a team of scientists…

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Starbirth shuts down 40,000 light-years from the Milky Way’s core — and astronomers don’t know why

Astronomers have found the boundary of star formation in the Milky Way's spiral disk — and it's not as far…

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