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NASA Finds ‘Sideways’ Black Hole Using Legacy Data, New Techniques

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Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA researchers have discovered a perplexing case of a black hole that appears to be…

Article3 days ago
The center of the image contains arcs of orange and pink that form a boat-like shape. One end of these arcs points to the top right of the image, while the other end point toward the bottom left. Another plume of orange and pink expands from the center to the top left of the image. To the right of this plume is a large cluster of white stars. There are various other white stars and a few galaxies of different sizes spread throughout the image. Ten, small, yellow circles overlaid at various points across the image indicate the positions of the ten stars surveyed in this study.

NASA’s Webb Finds Planet-Forming Disks Lived Longer in Early Universe

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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope just solved a conundrum by proving a controversial finding made with the agency’s Hubble Space…

Article6 days ago

NASA Successfully Integrates Roman Mission’s Telescope, Instruments

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NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission’s telescope and two instruments onto the instrument carrier,…

Article1 week ago
Two black holes are illustrated orbiting in a cloud of gas.

NASA’s Swift Studies Gas-Churning Monster Black Holes

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Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair…

Article1 month ago
A green diffuse mass representing a molecular cloud

Buckle Up: NASA-Funded Study Explores Turbulence in Molecular Clouds

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On an airplane, motions of the air on both small and large scales contribute to turbulence, which may result in…

Article2 months ago
A technician inspects a prototype LISA telescope.

NASA Reveals Prototype Telescope for Gravitational Wave Observatory

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NASA has revealed the first look at a full-scale prototype for six telescopes that will enable, in the next decade,…

Article2 months ago