The Furious Winds From Black Holes
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and ESA’s (European Space Agency) XMM-Newton telescope are showing that fierce winds from a supermassive black hole blow outward in…
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Expand Your Mind and Horizons With These Science Documentaries
I enjoy watching documentaries on a wide variety of topics. This visual medium is more concise than reading books but imparts a lot of information through…
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The First Stars Born Later Than Expected
New maps from ESA’s Planck satellite uncover the ‘polarised’ light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed much later…
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Citizen Scientists Identify 1 Million Potential Debris Disks
A NASA-sponsored website designed to crowdsource analysis of data from the agency’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has reached an impressive milestone. In less than…
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Kepler Marks 1,000th Earth-Like Exoplanet Discovery
How many stars like our sun host planets like our Earth? NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope continuously monitored more than 150,000 stars beyond our solar system, and…
Read the articleChandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst From Milky Way’s Black Hole
Astronomers have observed the largest X-ray flare ever detected from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This event, detected by…
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The X-Ray Sun
For the first time, a mission designed to set its eyes on black holes and other objects far from our solar system has turned its gaze…
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Youthful Compact Galaxies Age Prematurely
Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory have uncovered young, massive, compact galaxies whose raucous star-making parties are ending early. The firestorm of…
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Impact of Cosmic Chaos on Star Birth Identified by Chandra
The same phenomenon that causes a bumpy airplane ride, turbulence, may be the solution to a long-standing mystery about stars’ birth, or the absence of it,…
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Rosetta Ambition – Turning Science Fiction Into Science Fact
Imagine: with a wasteland as their canvas, a Master and his young Apprentice set about turning rubble into planets and moons, asteroids and comets. They levitate…
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