Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt
Are you out there, Planet X? Next-generation telescopes are mapping this external frontier. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook Out beyond the orbit of Neptune lies an extensive ring of ancient antiques, dynamical…
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Astronomers discover ‘unique inside-out system’ with a rocky planet far from where it belongs
19459003]fetchpriority=”high” data-component-name=”Image”> A rocky world orbits LHS 1903 further out than the gas worlds in the system, a brand-new research study discovers (Image credit: ESA CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) Astronomers…
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Astronomers discover a gigantic, wobbling black hole jet that ‘changes the way we think about the galaxy’
This artist’s rendering shows a precessing jet emerging from the supermassive great void at the center of galaxy VV 340a. ( Image credit: W. M. Keck Observatory/ Adam Makarenko) It’s…
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Astronomers confirm earliest Milky Way-like galaxy in the universe, just 2 billion years after the Big Bang
(Image credit: Ivanov, D. et al.(2026)) Researchers continue to press the borders of astronomy and cosmology, thanks to next-generation instruments that can see further and clearer than ever in the…
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Astronomers Spot Surprising Iron ‘Bar’ at Heart of Ring Nebula
Astronomers utilizing the WHT Enhanced Area Velocity Explorer (WEAVE), an effective brand-new instrument installed on the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma, have actually found an unforeseen, extended structure of…
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Astronomers may have already spotted the ‘Great Comet of 2026’ — and it could soon be visible to the naked eye
Scientists state they might have currently found the “Great Comet of 2026,” called C/2025 R3 (Pan-STARRS). It might shine as brilliantly as Comet Lemmon(photographed above), which passed us by in…
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Astronomers Discover Triple System of Active Galactic Nuclei 1.2 Billion Light-Years Away
An unusual trio of combining galaxies called J121/1219 +1035 hosts 3 actively feeding, radio-bright supermassive great voids, according to a group of U.S. astronomers. An artist’s impression of an unusual…
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Astronomers Spot Largest Protoplanetary Disk Ever Observed around Young Star
The protoplanetary disk around IRAS 23077 +6707, a young star situated approximately 1,000 light-years away, is suddenly disorderly and unstable, with wisps of product extending much further above and listed…
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Astronomers Find Direct Evidence for Supermassive Stars in Early Universe
Astronomers utilizing the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have actually found chemical finger prints of prehistoric stars weighing in between 1,000 and 10,000 times the mass of the Sun in…
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Astronomers Spot Extraordinary Blast from Supermassive Black Hole in NGC 3783
Utilizing ESA’s XMM-Newton and the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a JAXA-led objective with ESA and NASA involvement, astronomer have actually observed the launch of an ultrafast outflow from…
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