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Come full circle with the Ring Nebula
This week, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to find the Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra - a glowing shell of gas that offers a glimpse of our solar system’s distant ...
Astronomical observations show that the most massive galaxies in the early universe formed approximately three to four billion years after the Big Bang and stopped producing stars very early in cosmic ...
Planetary nebulae like the Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514) are sort of like stellar obituaries. Though crystal balls supposedly reveal the future, the Crystal Ball Nebula tells us more about the past.
Scientists have discovered that ultraheavy atomic nuclei could explain some of the highest-energy cosmic rays ever observed.
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Astronomers just watched a massive star vanish without a supernova — evidence it collapsed straight into a black hole, skipping the explosion entirely
A massive star in the Andromeda Galaxy, one of the most luminous objects in its neighborhood, has quietly disappeared. Over ...
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Astronomers just watched a distant star get shredded by a hidden black hole — a slow-motion demolition that lit up the sky with a brightness nothing should match
Sometime in early 2024, a star drifted too close to something massive, invisible, and lurking far from any galactic center.
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