Astronomers have unveiled one of the most ambitious maps yet of the early universe, revealing a vast “sea of light” between galaxies that had remained otherwise hidden in previous surveys.
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Ganymede’s auroras splinter into small, bright patches — structures that mirror features seen in Earth’s own auroral displays.
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The James Webb Space Telescope captured a stunning spiral galaxy 65 million light-years away, revealing glowing dust clouds and stellar nurseries.
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By fertilizing inorganic regolith with organic human waste that has been processed through bioreactors, future astronauts living on Mars could be able to create their own organic soil.
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The galaxy NGC 941 was imaged by the Subaru Telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawai’i.
“TIC 120362137 is currently the most compact known 3+1-type quadruple star system.”
The world’s first commercial space telescope has released its first image as it begins its journey to help track nearby stars that might host habitable exoplanets.
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There are only a few known fields of tektites in the entire world, and scientists just found another in Brazil.
Using gravitational waves as a measure of the universe’s rate of expansion could solve the biggest headache in physics, the so-called “Hubble tension.”
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The JUICE spacecraft captured its first detailed glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing a glowing coma and sweeping tail.
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