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Milky Way's Black Hole: May Be Spinning Football-Shaped Spacetime Warp
The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray Telescope team. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Sees Martian Moon Phobos Transit The Sun
NASA’s Perseverance rover captured imagery of Martian moon Phobos transiting the Sun. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech | edited by Steve Spaleta
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Mars Escaping Water Mystery 'Unlocked' By Hubble And MAVEN
Hubble Space Telescope and MAVEN mission have been used to help unravel the mystery of Mars' escaping water. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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James Webb Space Telescope 4K Video: Spots Tiniest Free-Floating Brown Dwarf
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured three brown dwarfs in an amazing view of star cluster IC 348, located about 1000 light-years away. Credit: Space.com | footage: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and K. Luhman (Penn State University) and...
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4K Cartwheel Galaxy Views From A Hubble Space Telescope
See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison shown in the video. Credit: Space.com |...
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NASA Simulation Of What It Would Look Like Flying Through A 'Black Hole' - Visualization Video
Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/J. Schnittman and B. Powell Music: “Tidal Force,” Thomas Daniel Bellingham...
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See The Crab Nebula And Cassiopeia - Amazing Time-Lapse
Over 2 decades of Chandra X-ray Observatory views of the Crab Nebula and Cassiopeia A have been time-lapsed. The Chandra team explains here. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart
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Colliding Galaxies From Siena Galaxy Atlas Seen In 4K
See amazing views of colliding galaxies NGC 520 and barred galaxy IC 4212 in imagery from the Siena Galaxy Atlas. Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURA/N. Bartmann Image Processing: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage/NSF’s NOIRLab)...
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Andromeda Galaxy Seen Via China's Wide-Field Survey Telescope
China's Wide Field Survey Telescope has captured an amazing view of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta
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5000 Comets Discovered Using Space-Based Sun Observatory
The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has officially discovered 5000 comets. Comet number 5000 was spotted in SOHO images on March 25, 2024. Full Story: https://www.space.com/soho-sun-observatory-5000-comet-discovery...
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X9 Time-Lapse: Sun Unleashes The Largest Solar Flare Since 2017
Sunspot AR3842 erupted with an X7.1-class solar flare. NASA models predict that the coronal mass ejection created by the flare is Earth directed. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks. Footage courtesy: NASA / SDO and...
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View Of Huge Galaxy Cluster Via James Webb And Hubble Telescopes
A composite of galaxy cluster known as MACS0416 created using James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope imagery. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. Diego (Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Spain), J. D’Silva (U. Western...
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Watch 100,000-Mile-High Solar Prominence Soar Above Sun
The impressive footage was captured by Mark Johnston from his backyard in Scottsdale, Arizona. Credit: Mark Johnston Music: A Rising Sun by Alan Ellis / courtesy of Epidemic Sound
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Galaxy Of Closest Pair Of Black Holes Viewable In Stunning 4K
Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey.org); Digitized Sky Survey 2; VST...
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Stunning Animation Of A Red Super Giant Star Go Supernova
A red supergiant star transitions into a type II supernova in this animation. Credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/Adam Makarenko | mash mix by Space.com's Steve Spaleta
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Astronomers warn too many satellites could be blocking our view of the universe
Astronomers warn bright light and electromagnetic radiation from thousands of Starlink satellites could be interfering with ground-based telescopes like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, limiting our study of the universe.
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JW Space Telescope's Stunning First Deep Field Image
Spend 8 minutes with an image that has changed astronomy forever - the first-ever deep field view of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 from the James Webb Space Telescope. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI | mash mix: Space.com Music: Shelter...
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Merging Black Hole Animation Shows Gravitational Waves Being Released
This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A. Buonanno (Max-Planck-Institut für...
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How Can We Achieve The Sharpest-Ever Black Hole Image?
The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration managed to capture the 1st image of the Milky Way's black hole in what was a groundbreaking moment for astronomy. Now, they want to snap an even clearer view of the incredible object. Credit: ESO
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Sunspot Pair Erupted With 'Sympathetic Solar Flares'
When sunspots erupt at nearly the same time, it could be something known as "sympathetic solar flares." A double eruption from sunspots AR3614 and AR3615 may be an example of it. One of the flares was an X1-class flare and was captured...
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Superb Cartwheel Galaxy Via JW Space Telescope
Travel 500 million light-years into the James Webb Space Telescope's amazing view of the Cartwheel Galaxy. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, STScI, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, E. Slawik, N. Risinger, N. Bartmann |...
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Amazing Stellar Nursery Views - Created From 1 Million Images
ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has delivered amazing imagery of nearby stellar nurseries. The views were created by "piecing together more than one million images," according to the European Souther...
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Black Hole Sounds: Chandra X-Ray Observatory Surveillance
Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster's black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound by SYSTEM Sounds. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/K.Arcand, SYSTEM Sounds (M. Russo, A. Santaguida) | mash mix by Space.com