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Many years ago, there was a viral YouTube video called "History of the entire world, i guess," which has been…
One of the main scientific objectives of next-generation observatories (like the James Webb Space Telescope) has been to observe the…
An international research team led by the University of Vienna has made a major breakthrough. In a study recently published…
The brightest gamma-ray burst ever seen in 2022 still puzzles astronomers.
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Black holes swallow everything—including light—which explains why we can't see them. But we can observe their immediate surroundings and learn…
NASA scientist have released images combining the early data from the James Webb Space Telescope with X-ray data taken with…
On July 7, 2020, the X-ray instrument eROSITA captured an astronomical event that – until then – had only been…
A new mission has launched to study some the most intriguing secrets of the universe. No, not THAT spacecraft (JWST…