NASA’s SPHEREx telescope will observe more than 450 million galaxies, complementing the James Webb Telescope and providing clues about what to observe.
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Their research revealed that Saturn has 274 moons, nearly twice as many as all the other planets in the solar system combined.
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Although the model is reliable, verifying the structure’s existence will require direct observations. This poses a massive challenge due to its remoteness and low brightness.
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Even vampires will want to catch the Blood Moon on March 13. (Bad joke, we know).
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This phenomenon is marked by a constant flickering and a series of intense but random bursts of brightness that act like a disco ball.
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New evidence suggests that an ocean of liquid, salty water lies beneath Callisto’s ice.
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The so-called Quipu is the largest superstructure ever identified.
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Now more than a decade old, Curiosity continues to send back valuable data and captivating images from the Martian surface.
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Albert Einstein predicted it in 1915. Scientists have seen it in photos today.
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Experts have recalculated the universe’s expansion rate, deepening the discrepancy.
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Astronomers rang in the new year with the discovery of a new asteroid. It turned out to be Elon Musk's trash.
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Even planets know how to line up in a straight line (more or less) sometimes.
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Since returning to the ISS, astronaut Don Pettit hasn’t stopped sharing incredible images.
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It surrounds a black hole 20 billion times bigger than the Sun.
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The telescope will take a picture of the entire night sky every three nights—a problem for the U.S. national security community.
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Messier 104 (M104) earned its nickname, the Sombrero Galaxy, because of its unique shape: A bright central nucleus surrounded by a thick disk of matter that resembles the brim of a sombrero.
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Eight telescopes at the European Southern Observatory collaborated to take a groundbreaking image of a star beyond the Milky Way galaxy.
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“For the first time, we see the creation of atoms, we can measure the temperature of the matter, and we can see the microphysics in this remote explosion.”
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The S2 meteorite was 50 to 200 times larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Current understanding of dark energy and dark matter is limited, adding more unknowns to our planet’s place in the universe.
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