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Space Telescope Science Institute posted the thread HubbleSite Researchers Rewind the Clock to Calculate Age and Site of Supernova Blast in RSS Feeds.

Sometime during the third century, a brilliant burst of light from the explosion of a massive star was visible from Earth. If the...

Yesterday at 5:01 PM
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The Editors of Sky & Telescope posted the thread Sky & Scope This Week in Astronomy Pictures: A Magnetic Whirlpool, Windblown Jets & More in RSS Feeds.

Whether you're here for eye candy or a more cosmic perspective, these astronomy pictures released this week will do the trick. The post...

Yesterday at 3:22 PM
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Space Telescope Science Institute posted the thread HubbleSite Researchers Rewind the Clock to Calculate Age and Site of Supernova Blast in RSS Feeds.

Sometime during the third century, a brilliant burst of light from the explosion of a massive star was visible from Earth. If the...

Yesterday at 10:21 AM
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Monica Young posted the thread Sky & Scope What the Most Distant Quasar Tells Us About Black Hole Birth in RSS Feeds.

The existence of a quasar when the universe was only 670 million years old is helping astronomers understand how black holes are born...

Yesterday at 9:46 AM
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Alan MacRobert posted the thread Sky & Scope This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 15 – 23 in RSS Feeds.

Bright Capella high overhead, and equally bright Rigel in Orion's foot, have almost the same right ascension. This means they cross your...

Yesterday at 9:46 AM
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Space Telescope Science Institute posted the thread HubbleSite Researchers Rewind the Clock to Calculate Age and Site of Supernova Blast in RSS Feeds.

Sometime during the third century, a brilliant burst of light from the explosion of a massive star was visible from Earth. If the...

Thursday at 10:35 PM
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Astronomy Now posted the thread Astronomy Now NASA InSight’s ‘Mole’ no longer digging the red planet in RSS Feeds.

An artist’s impression of NASA’s Mars Insight lander on the surface of the red planet. An ultra-sensitive seismometer is depicted on the...

Thursday at 3:22 PM
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Govert Schilling posted the thread Sky & Scope Masquerading Magnetars Make Short Brilliant Bursts in RSS Feeds.

Giant flares emitted from the surface of highly magnetized neutron stars could explain some gamma-ray flashes astronomers have caught...

Thursday at 3:22 PM
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Astronomy Now posted the thread Astronomy Now Most distant quasar – and youngest supermassive black hole – identified in RSS Feeds.

An artist’s impression of quasar J0313-1806, the most distant yet discovered, powered by the youngest known supermassive black hole...

Thursday at 6:15 AM
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Govert Schilling posted the thread Sky & Scope Black Hole Feasts on Star, Bite by Bite in RSS Feeds.

Like a cosmic blinker, a distant supermassive black hole is flaring every 114 days. Astronomers believe the eerily regular signal...

Wednesday at 11:29 AM
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Monica Young posted the thread Sky & Scope Rocky Planet Found Around 10 Billion-Year-Old Star in RSS Feeds.

Astronomers have found an Earth-size (but not at all Earth-like) planet around an ancient star that has a nice high view of our galaxy...

Wednesday at 11:29 AM
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Andrew Jones posted the thread Sky & Scope China Opens World's Largest Radio Telescope to International Scientists in RSS Feeds.

Scientists outside China will be allocated around 10% of observation time on its gigantic radio telescope following the collapse of...

Wednesday at 11:29 AM
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Space Telescope Science Institute posted the thread HubbleSite New Horizons Spacecraft Answers Question: How Dark Is Space? in RSS Feeds.

How dark is the sky, and what does that tell us about the number of galaxies in the visible universe? Astronomers can estimate the total...

Wednesday at 2:43 AM
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Astronomy Now posted the thread Astronomy Now Researchers find strong hints of background ‘sea’ of gravity waves in RSS Feeds.

A visualization of how the timing of millisecond pulsar flashes is being used in a project aimed at confirming the presence of...

Wednesday at 2:43 AM
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Monica Young posted the thread Sky & Scope Pulsars Show Hint of Gravitational-wave Background in RSS Feeds.

Duos of supermassive black holes tangoing throughout the universe make their own music, and astronomers may have picked up a hint of the...

Wednesday at 2:43 AM

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