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Astronomy Jargon 101: Cosmic Rays
Galaxy Found With Twin Supermassive Black Holes
A Sun-Like Star Just Blasted out a Flare That Would be Devastating if it Happened Here
A Sun-like star over 100 light-years away experienced a massive flare and ejection that would be devastating if it happened here.
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Astronomy Jargon 101: Chromosphere
The Recent Killer Tornado's Track is Visible From Space
Astronomy Jargon 101: Albedo
Astronomy Jargon 101: Absolute Magnitude
Twin Stars Prove Einstein at Least 99.99% Right
A 16-year study by an international team of astronomers has confirmed Einstein's Theory of General Relativity and witnessed some predicted effects that were never before seen.
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Forget That Planet That Orbits Every 16 Hours. That's so Last Week. Now Astronomers Have Found a Metal Planet That Orbits its Star EVERY 8 HOURS
Astronomers have found a small, hot planet that might be almost solid iron.
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Life on Earth Needed Iron. Will it be the Same on Other Worlds?
Gravitational Waves Could Explain why There's More Matter Than Antimatter in the Universe
A Spacecraft Orbiting the Moon Just Captured an Image of Saturn
NASA Gives Axiom Space Another Opening to Fly Private Astronauts to Space Station
One Feature Mars has That we Don't: Polar Megadunes
New renderings from Kevin M Gill show a unique feature on Mars: the northern polar Chasma Boreale Megadunes!
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Even Really Massive Stars Seem to Have Planets
This Incredible Photo of the Sun is Made up of 150,000 Individual Photographs
M87's Supermassive Black Hole is Spewing out a Spiraling jet of Material
Not Just Water, There Could be Frozen Carbon Dioxide on the Moon too
Parker Solar Probe Hurtles Past the Sun, Making its Closest Approach so far
The Constellation Fornax
Galaxies Have Been Found With no Dark Matter at all
According to new research led by Dutch astronomers, there may be lots of galaxies in the Universe that have no Dark Matter.
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After 10 Days of Dangerous, Careful Work, James Webb has Been Fully Fueled up
After many MANY delays, the James Webb Space Telescope is fully-fueled and ready for the final stage of preparations before launch (still on for Dec. 22nd)!
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Brrrr: Bundle Up For the 2021 Geminid Meteors
One of the best annual meteor showers of the year, the Geminids top off 2021.
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NASA Launches a New X-ray Observatory
Hubble is Fully Operational Once Again
After suffering a technical glitch and going into sleep mode for the second time this year, Hubble is once again back online!
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NASA's New Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Comes Online
Company Tests Iodine Thruster in Space for the First Time
Just Look at the Jaw-Dropping Detail of These Storms on Jupiter
A Nearby Dwarf Galaxy has a Surprisingly Massive Black Hole in its Heart
New research from UT Austin shows that dwarf galaxies - like our neighbor, Leo I - also have massive black holes at their centers!
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TESS Finds a New Mars-Sized Planet (With the Density of Mercury)
A New Way to Detect Alien Megastructures
'I'm Truly Happy': Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Floats Into Space Station
The Gamow Explorer Would be a new Gamma-ray Observatory to Search for the First Stars in the Universe... as They Explode
Giant Stars and the Ultimate Fate of the Sun
Rocket Lab Shows off its new Reusable Neutron Rocket, due for Launch in 2024
Rocket Lab just showed the updated design of their Neutron rocket, which features a never-before-seen Hungry Hippo fairing!
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Asteroid Apophis' 2029 Flyby Will Provide a Bonanza of Asteroid Science
Maybe "Boson Clouds" Could Explain Dark Matter
The search is underway for a hypothetical form of dark matter known as boson clouds.
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Did the Earth's Water Come From the Sun?
Messier 95 - the NGC 3351 Barred Spiral Galaxy
Located in the constellation Leo, about 33 million light-years from Earth, is the barred spiral galaxy known as Messier 95.
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'Don't Look Up' Shines a Satirical Spotlight on Campaign to Counter Cosmic Threats
Colliding Gases at the Heart of the Running Man Nebula
New images of the Running Man Nebula taken by Hubble provide insight into how young stars and debris disks are influenced by their environment
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If There are Water Plumes on Europa, Here's how Europa Clipper Will Study Them
Alan Shepard's Daughter Will be Flying on the Next New Shepard Flight
For the 19th mission of the New Shepard rocket, Blue Origin has offered a seat to Alan Shepard's eldest daughter - Laura Shepard Churchley!
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NASA Plans to Retire the Space Station in 2030 and Replace it with Commercially Owned "Destinations" in Low Earth Orbit
An Upcoming Asteroid Mission Will be Able to Peer 100 Meters Under the Surface
Our Guide to the Only Total Solar Eclipse of 2021
This weekend, the shadow of the Moon graces the Earth one last time for the year.
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NASA is Building a Nuclear Reactor to Power Lunar and Martian Exploration!
NASA and the U.S. Dept. of Energy have come together to solicit design proposals for a nuclear reactor that will power Lunar and Martian exploration!
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InSight Peers Deep Below the Surface on Mars
Astronauts Took A Fly-around of the International Space Station. Here are Their Stunning Pictures
NASA Simulation Shows What Happens When Stars Get Too Close to Black Holes
