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phys.org /1 week ago

Astronomer leads global team on NASA mission to create unprecedented view of the early universe

A University of Missouri astronomer is leading a team of 130 researchers from 62 institutions—including NASA, the California Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Harva...

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phys.org /3 weeks ago

Testing tiny telescope robots reveals design changes that could improve galaxy maps

Astronomers have cataloged billions of stars and hundreds of billions of galaxies. We have found thousands of planets orbiting stars. We can also map where galaxies sit and trace h...

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phys.org /1 month ago

The SKA project: A model for dialogue between historical astronomical archives, local memory and modern science

Humans have been observing the sky for thousands of years. Our ancestors were undoubtedly fascinated by it, but observing the heavens also had practical uses: It helped people meas...

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phys.org /3 weeks ago

Citizen science project recruits volunteers to search for undiscovered black holes

Cosmic detectives are being called on for an interstellar mission to hunt down thousands of invisible black holes lurking in our own backyard. Space scientists from the University...

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scientificamerican.com /1 month ago

Astronomers reveal a new type of celestial object that has been hiding in plain sight for decades

It’s unclear what these objects actually are, but evidence for them has been detected by NASA’s Chandra space telescope for years

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nytimes.com /1 month ago

NASA’s Roman Telescope Launches Into Space

NASA launched the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on Sunday. It will chart galaxies and black holes with a new level of precision, allowing astronomers to study the dark universe...

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staradvertiser.com /1 month ago

Skywatch: Team identifies new Wolf-Rayet stars near Milky Way’s black hole

Astronomers using the W.M. Keck Observatory and Gemini North Telescope on Mauna Kea have published a study about Wolf-Rayet stars orbiting the central supermassive black hole at th...

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scientificamerican.com /2 weeks ago

Astronomers discover record-breaking ancient cosmic outburst

Detected by the MeerKAT array, this “fast radio burst” comes from three billion years after the big bang and could help map the universe’s otherwise-invisible intergalactic matter

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phys.org /1 month ago

ASTRID traces 13.5 billion years of black hole and galaxy evolution

In dark skies at night, distant starlight twinkles and speaks to vast cosmic histories almost as old as time itself. New data from instruments such as NASA's James Webb Space Teles...

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wired.com /1 month ago

Astronomers Have Completed the Largest Map of Space. Yes, You Can Play With It.

The intricate, 5.6 trillion-pixel map covers approximately 75 percent of the sky and includes about 4 billion celestial objects.

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mashable.com /1 month ago

Roman telescopes data deluge will change who gets to do big astronomy

NASA's Roman Space Telescope will stream its data to the cloud, reshaping astronomy and who gets to make big space discoveries.

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physicsworld.com /1 month ago

NASA launches Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to shed light on the dark universe

The observatory will also study exoplanets, black holes and map billions of galaxies The post NASA launches Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to shed light on the dark universe ap...

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nytimes.com /1 month ago

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope’s Roman Telescope Leaves Earth to Chart the Stars

Astronomers will use data collected by Roman’s wide, deep gaze to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds.

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physicsworld.com /1 month ago

How the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will turn the sky into a dataset

Richard de Grijs looks at how the Roman Space Telescope will change astronomy forever The post How the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will turn the sky into a dataset appeared f...

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scientificamerican.com /1 month ago

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope will rewrite how we study the universe

Astronomers are lining up to leverage NASA’s soon-to-launch Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which boasts capabilities unlike any previous off-world observatory

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phys.org /2 weeks ago

Hidden X-ray phase revealed in likely neutron star merger

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the Department of Physics and the Hong Kong Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (HKIAA) at The University of H...

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phys.org /3 days ago

Astronomers uncover the engine behind the most powerful stellar flares in the Kepler field

A new study led by researchers at the Konkoly Observatory of the HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (HUN-REN CSFK) in Budapest has revealed what makes a dista...

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scotsman.com /1 month ago

Want to know what happens if you get sucked into a black hole? Ask Catherine Heymans, Astronomer Royal

Black holes, dark matter, stars and galaxies are all in a day’s work for the King’s astronomer in Scotland, who wants to tell us how it all works with her new book How to Design a...

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nytimes.com /1 month ago

How the Nancy Grace Roman Telescope, NASA’s New Window Into the Universe, Came to Be

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, scheduled to launch on Sunday, will study dark energy and discover a multitude of planets.

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physicsworld.com /1 week ago

Officials celebrate completion of gamma-ray telescope array in La Palma

The Large-Sized Telescope will provide new insights into the early universe The post Officials celebrate completion of gamma-ray telescope array in La Palma appeared first on Physi...

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mashable.com /1 week ago

Astronomers spot something positively enormous behind the Milky Way

NASA's Chandra X-Ray Obervatory helps reveal a treble clef-shaped radio phoenix in a merging galaxy cluster behind the Milky Way.

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phys.org /1 month ago

NASA telescope honors Nancy Grace Roman, architect of space-based astronomy

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch this weekend aboard a SpaceX rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. When it becomes operational early next year, it wil...

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latimes.com /1 month ago

NASA's new space telescope will aid hunt for 'Earth twins' and seek the fate of the universe

The Roman Space Telescope, equipped with JPL tech, may shed some light on the greatest mysteries of the universe.

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universetoday.com /1 month ago

Astronomers Might Use Manganese to Clock the Age of Galaxies

Keeping track of time in the universe is a difficult task. It’s constantly evolving and changing, and studying events that happened billions of years ago, while possible, isn’t exa...

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