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The team’s observations showed that Maisie’s galaxy existed when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was just around 390 million years old, which is incredibly young for our cosmic expanse.

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After analyzing 30 years of data, scientists came to a surprising conclusion about an ice giant in our solar system. Comments (0). Progression of blue planet become hazier as clouds dissipate. This sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images chronicles …

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Astronomers believe a well-known object is actually a new type of star — and it’s one that could be the “missing link” in models showing the formation of stellar corpses with extremely powerful magnetic fields, known as magnetars.

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A figure sitting next to a campfire points up at a starry sky, streaked with. A composite image of meteors, falling in their originally photographed direction. (Image credit …

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SEATTLE — The first Artemis mission to make use of NASA’s moon-orbiting Gateway space station will be Artemis 4, now scheduled to launch in 2028, agency officials confirmed earlier this month. NASA and its international partners see Gateway as a key …

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Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years keeps notching milestones. The Luna-25 lander has snapped its first detailed photo of the moon’s surface, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced today (Aug. 17) in a Telegram post.

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SEATTLE — With the International Space Station (ISS) scheduled to retire in 2030, NASA is placing a huge emphasis on a seamless shift to future private space stations in low-Earth orbit. Many details of that transition are still being worked out, agency …

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The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured a stunning new image of what scientists call a pair of actively forming stars. But eagle-eyed viewers were quick to seize on an even tinier — and to some, more intriguing — detail at the very bottom of …

The New York Times

Most of the Doppler effect arises from the relative motions of Mars and Earth as they move around the sun. Interplanetary radio transmissions are also distorted by moisture in Earth’s atmosphere and the solar wind of charged particles streaming from the …

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Fossils from La Brea Tar Pits in Southern California suggest that sabertooth cats and other large North American mammals disappeared as a result of wildfires spurred by human activity.