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The speed of light remains one of physics’ firmest assumptions, but scientists still test whether … “New discovery rewrites what we know about the speed of light”
There’s an era in the early Universe that has been poorly studied called the Epoch … “Gazing Into the Past With TIME”
When JWST began operations, it made a surprising discovery. Supermassive black holes were much heavier … “An Explanation for the Massive Black Holes the JWST Found in the Early Universe”
Of the more than 6,000 known exoplanets, astronomers have only found 18 circumbinary planets. This … “Astronomers Find New Circumbinary “Tatooine-like” Planet Candidates”
The Amaterasu particle was detected by the Telescope Array Project in Utah in 2021. It … “Ultrahigh-energy Cosmic Rays May Be Ultraheavy in Origin”
Open star clusters are beautiful objects to observe in a small telescope with dozens or … “Just Like Stars, Open Clusters Can Form Binary Pairs”
You’re looking at an amazing image: the N159 star-forming complex located in the Large Magellanic … “The Name N159 Doesn’t Do This Brilliant Star-Forming Region Justice”
Core-collapse supernovae are plenty bright, briefly outshining all the other stars in their galaxy, but … “The Magnetar at the Heart of a Superluminous Supernova”