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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has looked deep into the distant universe and detected the feeble glow of a star that exploded more than 9 ... 2 comments
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Astronomers have found the first clear evidence of a binary quasar within a pair of actively merging galaxies. Binary quasars, like other... 1 comment
More than 50 new alien planets — including one so-called super-Earth that could potentially support life — have been discovered by an exo... 1 comment
Buried beneath the Antarctic may lie answers to one of the great questions confronting 21st century astrophysics: What is dark matter?Rea... 1 comment
Astronomers have measured the vital statistics of the black hole living in the famous Cygnus X-1 binary system to a very high precision. ... 1 comment
Astronomers have identified the moment when a black hole in our galaxy launched super-fast knots of gas into space. Racing outward at abo... 1 comment
Researchers working at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have used the world's most powerful X-ray laser... 1 comment


