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Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope have imaged a quasar at the heart of a distant galaxy that blasts out huge amounts of radiation powered by a feeding supermassive black hole. These extremely powerful events are often described as the …

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The Very Large Telescope in Chile took images of its lightest exoplanet yet after data from two European sky-mapping missions indicated something was tugging at the orbit of a distant young star. The star in question is called AF Leporis and is some …

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China’s first interplanetary mission marked its second anniversary in orbit around Mars on Feb. 10, but there was no update on the status of the mission’s rover. The Tianwen 1 mission’s Zhurong rover entered …

CNN

Europa has long intrigued scientists because the moon has a subsurface ocean beneath a thick shell of ice. Plumes of water have been known to erupt from cracks in the ice shell, releasing the contents of the moon’s alien ocean into space.

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The bright star V 372 Orionis and its companion are captured in this new Hubble image. The Hubble Space Telescope captured a photo of two young stars surrounded by thick clouds of dust in …

WIRED

Seth Putterman started out studying the behavior of plasma for national security reasons. Extremely fast hypersonic missiles heat and ionize the surrounding air and form a cloud of charged particles called plasma, which absorbs radio waves and makes it …

Phys.Org

Physicists use the magnetic moment of particles like electrons to test the standard model by studying interactions between them and virtual particles that come into existence inside of a vacuum chamber. Such study involves measuring the affect of …

Space Ref

Ground-penetrating radar from China’s Martian rover Zhurong reveals shallow impact craters and other geologic structures in the top five meters of the red planet’s surface. The images of the Martian subsurface are presented in a paper published in …

CNET

This collage shows six planetary radar observations of 2011 AG5 a day after the asteroid made. Six radar views of asteroid 2011 AG5 after its close approach to Earth in early February 2023. NASA …

CNET

Four of the most intriguing worlds in the solar system also boast auroral light shows, according to a team of astronomers observing Jupiter’s Galilean moons. The four satellites orbiting Jupiter — Io, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa — are also the gas …