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Galaxies Coming Of Age In Cosmic Blobs

The “coming of age” of galaxies and black holes has been pinpointed, thanks to new data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes. This discovery helps resolve the true nature of gigantic blobs of gas observed around very young … Continue reading

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Jupiter-like Planet Found Orbiting One Of Smallest Stars

A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch — a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. The technique, called astrometry, was first attempted 50 years ago to search for planets outside our solar system, … Continue reading

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Astronomers Take Close Look into Black Hole’s Edge

Using new data from ESA’s XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, astronomers have probed closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy. The galaxy – known as 1H0707-495 – was observed during four … Continue reading

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Astronauts complete tricky Hubble surgery

In a historic and daring feet astronauts opened up and installed new electronics on one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s most important instruments on Saturday. But NASA must now wait for the results of a battery of tests to see … Continue reading

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