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Space.com

“This will help us understand how the jets are launched from all objects, even the supermassive black holes that reside at the centers of galaxies.” Comments (0). An illustration of a white orb surrounded by warm-toned, bright hazes in a.

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“This new image, along with a strikingly similar polarization structure seen in the much larger and more powerful M87* black hole, shows that strong and ordered magnetic fields are critical to how black holes interact with the gas and matter around them.” …

CBS News

Earth’s changing spin is threatening to toy with our sense of time, clocks and computerized society in an unprecedented way — but only for a second. For the first time in history, world timekeepers may have to consider subtracting a second from our …

Space.com

“Eclipses have a special power. They move people to feel a kind of reverence for the beauty of our universe. Their power is not only to unify us on Earth, but to further science and discovery,” Bill Nelson, NASA Administrator, said during the briefing.

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Jump to: April 8 eclipse cities; Great Asian Eclipse; Great North African Eclipse; Six-minute totality; Path of totality in 2027. The …

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Humanity’s impact on the polar ice sheets is slowing Earth’s rotation, posing a challenge for how it matches up with the official timekeeping. Comments (0). A crack in an ice sheet an Antarctica ice sheet caused by climate change.

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A plant-growth study is one of three experiments that the Artemis 3 astronauts are expected to deploy on the lunar surface. Comments (0). illustration of an astronaut in a white spacesuit kneeling on the gray lunar surface.

The Washington Post

Climate change is messing with time itself. The melting of polar ice due to global warming is affecting Earth’s rotation and could have an impact on precision timekeeping, according to a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Space.com

The gas-rich galaxies were uncovered by a team using the MeerKAT radio telescope located in South Africa. They have been dubbed the “forty-niners,” a callback to the nickname given to the thousands of gold miners who flocked to California during the …

Phys.Org

The U-M study, led by U-M astronomer Gabriele Cugno, aimed JWST at a disk surrounding a protostar called SAO 206462. There, the researchers potentially found a planet candidate in the act of forming in a protoplanetary disk, but it wasn’t the planet they …