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An investigation, carried out by the astrophysicists of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), questions one of the ...

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When a magnetar within the Milky Way galaxy belched out a flare of colossally powerful radio waves in 2020, scientists ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made.

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A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

Let's take a look at some of these beautiful star cluster images captured by NASA. Hubble captured two massive star clusters ...