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it matches the Chinese rocket,” University of Arizona supervisor and associate professor Vishnu Reddy, who also co-leads the school’s Space Domain Awareness lab, said in a statement Tuesday (Feb. 15).

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A supermassive black hole masked by a cloud of cosmic dust was found at the center of an active galaxy in new images from the European Southern Observatory (ESO). The galaxy, known as Messier 77 or NGC 1068, is a barred spiral galaxy located about 47 …

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NASA’s newly-launched X-ray hunting probe has snapped its first science image and — wow — it’s spectacular. The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) probe launched Dec. 9, 2021, on a mission to observe objects like black holes and neutron stars in …

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The space agency and mission team members are holding a variety of events around the country to mark the “Marsiversary” of the life-hunting, sample-caching Perseverance and the tiny helicopter Ingenuity, which touched down with the rover on Feb. 18, 2021.

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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) Point your cameras toward the sky as February’s full moon, nicknamed the snow moon, will make its …

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Just over two months after launching to space, NASA’s newest explorer — the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer, or IXPE — shared its very first images. And they are stunning. The images offer …

Phys.Org

In time for Valentine’s Day, NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer which launched Dec. 9, 2021, has delivered its first imaging data since completing its month-long commissioning phase. All instruments are functioning well aboard the observatory, …

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By a stroke of luck, a team led by Dutch Ph.D. student Martijn Oei has discovered a radio galaxy of at least 16 million light-years long. The pair of plasma plumes is the largest structure made by a galaxy known thus far. The finding disproves some …

Livescience.com

Astronomers have spotted a pair of bizarre stars, unlike any ever seen, covered in a mysterious buildup of unusual chemicals. These cosmic oddballs may have been born through a very rare type of merger between two stars at different ends of their …

Vox

A SpaceX launches from the SLC-4E launch pad at Vandenberg US Space Force Base A SpaceX rocket takes off on February 2, 2022. This is not the rocket destined to crash …