“These nine objects are special.”
“WIMPs are still the leading candidate for dark matter, but billions of dollars of experiments have been done, only getting stronger and stronger upper limits, so alternative scenarios have to be considered.”
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“Nothing in my professional training as an X-ray astronomer had prepared me for something like this.”
The Vera Rubin Observatory has found 19 new “superfast rotator” asteroids, including the fastest-spinning big space rock ever found.
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Both NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory caught these two galaxies in a close embrace.
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“This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a star.”
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The galaxy cluster appears hotter and more mature than it should for its young age, challenging what we think we know about how these cities of galaxies form.
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“The Chinese may well beat the U.S. with a grab sample.”
Using new observations from the Hubble Space Telescope and observatories on Earth, scientists have confirmed the existence of Betelgeuse’s elusive companion star, named Siwarha.
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“This is a tale of a failed galaxy.”