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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”

“The soul is not born, nor does it know itself as a soul. The purpose … The Soul is not Born

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”

You’re looking at an incredible image of the spiral galaxy NGC 3137, captured by the … “Hubble Captures a Starry Spiral Cosmic Neighbor”

Webb has shown us that there were extremely powerful quasars, even early on in the … “How Super-Quasars Shaped Early Galaxies and Confounded the JWST”

“Man, alone of all creatures, is capable of blushing, for he, alone of all things … Only Man has a Soul that can Feel Shame

Dark matter is thought to make up most of the matter in the cosmos, yet … “Strange ripples in space may point to dark matter near merging black holes”

For nearly a century, modern cosmology has treated the Big Bang as the opening moment … “The Universe may have begun inside a black hole, not a Big Bang”

Spacetime is often described as the stage on which the universe unfolds, a four-dimensional blend … “Physicists rewrite Einstein’s equations to define spacetime evolution”