Breaking: Black Hole at Heart of Our Galaxy Pictured For First Time
The gargantuan black hole which binds our galaxy together with its powerful gravity has been imaged for the first time. The capture relied on the collaboration of telescopes from all over the world acting in sync, collecting several millions of gigabytes of data to present the burning accretion disk of Sagittarius A—our black hole’s official […]
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Plants Have Been Grown in Lunar Soil For The First Time Ever
Food has been grown in soil collected from the moon for the first time, paving the way for human migration across the solar system. Pioneers would be able to cultivate crops on other worldsâmirroring the plot of The Martian. In the film, Matt Damon’s stranded astronaut character grows potatoes on the Red Planet to survive. […]
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Milky Wayâs black hole seen at last!
Astronomers have succeeded in capturing the 1st direct image of our Milky Way’s black hole, a monster with the mass of 4 million suns!
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Supermassive black hole a feature of most galaxies
A large galaxy typically has a supermassive black hole at its heart. These black holes contains millions – to billions – of times our sun’s mass.
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TESS finds 30 exocomets for Beta Pictoris
An international team of astronomers has discovered 30 exocomets orbiting the young star Beta Pictoris, 64 light-years away from Earth.
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A total lunar eclipse looks red. Why?
The moon can look red during a total lunar eclipse because of sunlight that’s filtered and refracted by Earth’s atmosphere.
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SpaceX might be back on target with Starship in Texas
An optimistic tweet from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk expressing hope the company can fly the Starship Heavy Lift Vehicle into…
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Asteroids photobombed deep Hubble images
When astronomers realized that asteroids photobombed deep space images from Hubble, citizen scientists got to work. The result: over 1,000 new asteroid discoveries!
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Large asteroid 7335 to pass safely May 27
Large asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) will safely pass our planet on May 27, 2022, coming closer than it will again for the next 200 years.
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Webb fully aligned! See the new test images
NASA’s Webb telescope has finished aligning all of its science instruments. The new test images are a taste of what’s to come.
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