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Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Universe’s First Galaxies
NASA’s new JWST space telescope has revealed some cosmic surprises, including galaxies that might have assembled earlier than previously thought.
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Galaxies shockingly similar to our own found near the beginning of the universe by Nasa
Galaxies shockingly similar to our own appear to have been found near the beginning of the universe.
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Mystery as ‘alien’ radio signal blips 2,000 times in past two months
Mysterious fast radio bursts release as much energy as the Sun pours out in a year – and newly published research has deepened the mystery around them.
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An ongoing galactic tug of war could change our understanding of how galaxies die, scientists say
The gravitational tug-of-war between two merging galaxies could explain why star formation was snuffed out in one of them, and offers new insights into how galaxies die.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Red Giant
A red giant forms after a star has run out of hydrogen fuel for nuclear fusion and has begun the process of dying.
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in Sci-fi Exploration, Space ExplorationWith a diameter of 520 million light-years, it includes 100,000 galaxies!
The enormity of the universe is always daunting, and whenever humans think about their place in the universe, they often find their own insignificance.
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Scientists find the secret to birth of earliest black holes in the Cosmos
It takes a long time to grow a supermassive black hole, even if it eats voraciously. So just how supermassive black holes billions of times heavier than the Sun formed within the first billion years of the universe has been an enduring puzzle.
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Enigmatic ‘blue blobs’ are new kind of star system, astronomers say
They’re not really galaxies, and they’re not your ordinary star cluster. Mysterious “blue blobs” consisting of only young, blue stars, and isolated from nearby galaxies may be an entirely new type of star system.
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The fastest growing black hole in the past 9 billion years has appeared, with a mass 3 billion times that of the sun
An international team led by Australian National University researchers has discovered the fastest growing black hole in the past 9 billion years.