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First truly isolated black hole detected in interstellar space

Rogue black holes are usually detected by the matter falling into them, but the first truly isolated black hole has been found because of the way it bends the light of a distant star

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New Chandra observations have been used to make the first detection of X-ray emission from young stars with masses similar to our Sun outside our Milky Way galaxy. The Chandra observations of these low-mass stars were made of the region known as the

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Rare intergalactic supernova may have been seen outside the Milky Way

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2DC4CH7 Closeup of the double cluster of Perseus constellation, with many stars as background in the deep space, taken with my telescope.

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How to spot the Double Cluster and the Carina Nebula this week

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This image shows a new view of the Milky Way from the Murchison Widefield Array, with the lowest frequencies in red, middle frequencies in green, and the highest frequencies in blue. The star icon shows the position of the mysterious repeating transient

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A strange object in space is blasting out radio waves every 18 minutes

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James Webb Space Telescope fired its onboard thrusters for nearly five minutes (297 seconds) to complete the final post launch course correction to Webb?s trajectory. This mid-course correction burn inserted Webb toward its final orbit around the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point, or L2, nearly 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth.

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The James Webb Space Telescope has arrived at its final destination

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Star trails over the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, AZ.??

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Largest 3D map of the universe contains 8 million galaxies

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Help discover the origins of meteor showers by spotting shooting stars

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Help discover the origins of meteor showers by spotting shooting stars

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The Triangulum Galaxy, a.k.a., Messier 33, is a spiral galaxy about 3 million light years from Earth. It belongs to the Local Group of galaxies that includes the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies. Chandra's X-ray data (pink) reveal a diverse range of objects including neutron stars and black holes that are pulling material from a companion star, and supernova remnants. An optical image from the Subaru telescope in Hawaii (red, green, and blue) shows the majestic arms of this spiral galaxy that in many ways is a cousin to our own Milky Way.

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Find the most distant galaxy visible to the naked eye

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James Webb Space Telescope

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The James Webb Space Telescope is finally on its way into orbit

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My encounter with a different and deeply mysterious kind of corona

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My encounter with a different and deeply mysterious kind of corona

While teaching solar physics this year, I was once again drawn in by the mystery of why the sun's corona is so inexplicably hot, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

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Baffling 'space cow' explosion was probably a failed supernova

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Monster cloud of plasma spotted spewing out of a distant star

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The James Webb Space Telescope is expensive, but it should be worth it

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3 of the most exciting space telescopes planned for launch by 2034

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