Could our Telescopes Spot a Distant Alien City?
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Have you ever looked at the night sky and asked yourself whether someone was looking at that same sky but…
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The Giant Magellan Telescope: A Titan Poised to Outshine Hubble and Webb
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The goal is kind of simple, to unveil the very secrets of the universe from a location atop the Atacama…
15 Facts About James Webb, Mankind’s Largest Most Complex Space Telescope
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Name and Budget Initially, the telescope bore the short but difficult to pronounce name NGST (Next Generation Space Telescope). In…
Here Are 30 Jaw-Dropping Images Taken By The Hubble Space Telescope
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This is the best of Hubble. On April 24, 1990, NASA launched one of its most successful missions since the…
10 Of The Largest Objects In The Universe You Probably Never Heard Of
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The Universe is home to truly gigantic objects. Planets, stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies – each of these can…
Here Are 15 Breathtaking Images Captured by the Hubble Space Telescope
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The Hubble Space Telescope, or Hubble, is a telescope that orbits outside the atmosphere in a circular orbit around the…
Astronomers Successfully Map 8,000 Galaxies and Make an Incredible Discovery
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Have you ever wondered where in the universe we are located? I’ve tried imagining our solar system while looking at…
Here are 20 Incredible Space Images Made With The Chandra X-Ray Observatory
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The Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched into space in 1999 and has served a total of almost 22 years in…
Where did all the Stars go? This Eerie ‘Dark Spot’ in the Universe Will Blow Your Mind
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A Glimpse into the Cosmic Abyss Imagine gazing at the night sky, marveling at the countless stars, when suddenly, a…
Want to find alien life? Look for anomalies!
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Over the past 2.5 years, space has welcomed the arrival of two modern telescopes: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and…
10 facts about history’s greatest Solar storm, the Carrington Event
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Have you ever heard about the so-called Carrington Event? Do you know what it was, when it took place? If…
Signs of a Dark Object in Deep Space Warping a Cloud of Gas
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A peculiar cloud of gas in deep space is distorted oddly. According to astronomers, the shape of the cloud of…
Scientists See Giant Structure “Hidden” Behind Our Galaxy
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In our quest to explore the universe, we are often surprised by everything that’s out there. Yes, space is massive….
Here is a 554-Million-Pixel Image of the Remnants of a Star
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Using the VLT Survey Telescope, scientists have captured the remains of a giant star. About 11,000 years ago, a massive…
Haumea: This American Football-Shaped World is the Strangest in the Solar System
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NASA scientists have used computer simulations to figure out how the dwarf planet Haumea became one of the most unusual…
Unprecedented energy burst that traveled 1.9 billion years swipes over Earth
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An unusually bright, long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation swept over Earth on Oct. 9, captivating astronomers around the world. A…
Black Hole “throws up” stellar remains 3 years after eating a star
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Four years ago, in October 2018, a small star came too close to a black hole located in a galaxy…
Astrophotographer Captures 1.6 Million-Kilometer Plasma Plume Erupting From the Sun
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Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who earlier this year snapped, together with his colleague, one of the most detailed photographs of the…
Chandra and Webb Data Combined Produce Breathtaking New Photographs
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We have come an awesome way from exploring the universe since the very first telescope was created. An eyeglass maker…
Harvard Astronomer Maintains ‘Oumuamua Was Alien Tech
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Astronomical objects in interstellar space that are not gravitationally bound to stars (such as asteroids, comets, or rogue planets) are…
10 Curiosities About the Historic Black Hole Photographs
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Half a century ago, astronomers first hypothesized that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our Galaxy….
Using Rogue Planets as Spaceships, Aliens Could Colonize our Galaxy
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According to a study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology, researchers suggest that a better way of finding extraterrestrial…