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The Hubble Space Telescope has captured imagery of the most distant single star found yet. It took the light from the star 12.9 billion light years to reach Earth. Learn how it was discovered. Credit; ...
A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...
Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are some of the most perplexing phenomena in nature. Even though astronomers have detected about ...
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Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson gave a rousing defense of scientific principles in his characteristic brash way during his Purdue ...
A simple breakdown of the new 3I/ATLAS pulsing discovery and why scientists are checking if Callisto might be affected.
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