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Astrophysics
Scientific news within the field of astrophysics, from news of solar eclipses to star behavior.
Monster black holes hiding under our cosmic bed
NuSTAR recently identified two gas-enshrouded supermassive black holes, located at the centers of nearby galaxies.…
NASA’s Lucy mission to explore the early solar system
Two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar…
Cosmological source of fast radio burst uncovered
The cosmological source of a sporadically repeating milliseconds-long 'fast radio burst' has been uncovered by…
Extremely rare Hoag-type galaxy has been observed
There is a galaxy with an innocuous name (PGC 1000714), approximately 359 million light-years away from Earth, that…
Hollywood vs. NASA: Is ‘Passengers’ medically possible?
From 'Aliens' to 'Interstellar', Hollywood has long used suspended animation to overcome the difficulties of deep…
Milky Way Galaxy satellite lit up by festive nebulae light
The sheer observing power of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is rarely better illustrated than in an image such…
Erosion-carved troughs may become Martian ‘spiders’
Erosion-carved troughs that grow and branch during multiple Martian years may be infant versions of larger features…
Floating in a cosmic ‘winter’ wonderland
Although there are no seasons in space, this cosmic vista invokes thoughts of a frosty winter landscape. It is, in…
Red supergiant star swallowed companion
Astronomer J. Craig Wheeler of the University of Texas at Austin thinks that Betelgeuse, the bright red star…
A community for women in aerospace engineering
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory loomed large for Marlyse Reeves from an early age. Growing up in…