Tag: Astronomy

NASA’s NuSTAR Finds Its First 10 Supermassive Black Holes
Astronomers this week announced that NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (...
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Spitzer Telescope Now a Decade Old
Sunday marks the ten-year anniversary of the launch of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA today commemorated the milestone b...
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Kepler Space Telescope Broken, NASA Gives Up on Restoration
Sometimes the best physicists, engineers, and mathematicians in the world can't save a failing satellite. NASA announced today...
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Super-Strong Magnetic Field Found Around Magnetar
Astronomers this week revealed that one of the strongest magnetic fields ever observed has been spotted around a neutron s...
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Smallest Planet Yet Spotted Around Sun-Like Star
Astronomers this week announced they have directly imaged the smallest planet yet found around a sun-like star. The plane...
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Maria Mitchell Google Doodle Honors First Female Professional Astronomer
Today, Google is honoring Maria Mitchell with a really cool Doodle that shows the first American professional female astronomer using a telescope to look to the sky - presumably in...
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Most “Centaurs” Are Comets, Say Astronomers
For years, the small objects orbiting the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune have remained a mystery to astronomers. Dubbed "centaurs," researchers were unsure what exactly the objec...
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‘Snow Line’ Spotted in Young Solar System
Astronomers this week revealed that the first-ever "snow line" of a solar system has been spotted. Scientists believe tha...
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New Neptune Moon Found by Hubble Space Telescope
NASA this week revealed that a new moon has been spotted orbiting the furthest planet from the sun, Neptune. The moon, the 1...
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Astronomers Spot Massive Star In-Utero
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) this week revealed tha...
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Hubble Telescope Spots a Blue Planet
Astronomers have been finding and cataloging exoplanets for yea...
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Astronomers Find Extra-Galactic Radio Bursts
Astronomers this week announced that the first confirmed radio bursts from outside our Milky Way galaxy have been detected...
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Distant Galaxy Caught ‘Feeding’ on Gas Clouds
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Teles...
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NASA Shuts Down Galaxy Explorer Telescope
Just over ten years after its launch, NASA this afternoon decommissioned its Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft. The satelli...
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NASA Launches IRIS to Study Sun’s Atmosphere
After being delayed for one day over a power outage at Vandenberg Air Force Base, NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph...
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