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Galactic gold rush: Astronomers discover 49 new galaxies in less than 3 hours!
Dubbed the ‘49ers’ in homage to the California gold rush miners of 1849, these newfound galaxies ha…
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A bridesmaid told her best friend live on radio she was skipping parts of her wedding to attend a Taylor Swift concert. It didn't go well.
A bridesmaid booked Taylor Swift "Eras" concert tickets on the same night as her best friend's wedd…
Joshua Zitser
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Astronomers discovered a 'spooky' spinning object in our galactic backyard, emitting some of the strongest radio beams in the sky
Radio telescopes are detecting more mysterious signals. They switch on and off and don't match any …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Mysterious radio waves are radiating from an unknown object at the heart of the Milky Way, astronomers say
The signal appeared near the center of the galaxy. It was strong for most of 2020, but then it sudd…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers may have just found the most distant astronomical object ever observed
Astronomers might have discovered the most distant astronomical object ever observed. Named HD1, it…
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A communications satellite the size of an apartment is so bright it can outshine stars, and astronomers are worried it could interfere with their research
AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 can shine as bright as the 16th brightest star in the night sky. Hun…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Astronomers are getting concerned about the growing number of Starlink and other satellites
“The IAU embraces the principle of a dark and radio-quiet sky, not only as essential to advanc…
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A mysterious object 1 billion light-years away is sending out a 'heartbeat' radio signal from deep space
Astronomers detected a pulse of radio waves, called a fast radio burst, in a faraway galaxy. The si…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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Solar flare sparks radio blackout in parts of Asia and Australia
According to the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), the solar flare peaked late on April 17…
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Unknown objects at the heart of the Milky Way are beaming radio signals, then mysteriously disappearing
Radio waves bursting from the center of the Milky Way, then disappearing, might reveal a new type o…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers discover whirling electric winds at Saturn's north pole, solving a decades-old NASA mystery
Saturn's aurora borealis, unlike auroras on other planets, is driven by a powerful weather system. …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers spotted a distant planet in the middle of making its own moon
The disc surrounding this planet has enough dust and gas to form three moons the size of our own. T…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX just launched 57 new Starlink satellites with sun visors to make them less bright. A scientist says that won't stop them from interfering with astronomy.
The skies could soon be crawling with tens of thousands of false stars. Making those satellites dim…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers are urging NASA to build a huge space telescope to see Earth-like worlds outside our solar system
NASA is just about to launch a groundbreaking space telescope. But a once-a-decade report asks the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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SpaceX is launching 'dark satellites' to stop its Starlink project from wreaking havoc with astronomical research. Astronomers are skeptical.
Among its many rocket launches and plans to colonize Mars, SpaceX has a more Earthling-focused proj…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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NASA is developing plans to build an enormous, Arecibo-like telescope inside a crater on the moon
NASA researchers are plotting out how robots could build a radio telescope inside a moon crater. It…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Fast radio bursts were once thought to be alien broadcasts. New research suggests the mysterious signals come from dead stars.
Magnetars are the super dense remains of dead stars. Their explosions of X-rays and gamma rays some…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Astronomers captured rare images of a black hole shredding a star into spaghetti-like strands and devouring it
Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory observed a black hole sucking in a faraway star, s…
Susie Neilson
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Build World-Class Indian Universities, Take India To The Top: Govind Swarup
I look at them with positivity and lots of hope. But my fear is brain drain. Today, very few bright…
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Pune telescope detected an explosion five times bigger than the Big Bang 390 million light years from Earth
The other telescopes used for the discovery included NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, Euro…