[ad_1] The MUSE spectrograph located on the very large telescope of the Southern European Observatory (European Southern Observatory) has discovered vast clouds of atomic hydrogen surrounding galaxies far from the beginning of …
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[ad_1] Astronomers using Karl G. Jansky of the NSF's Very Large Array discovered a jet of rapidly moving material propelled outwards from a strongly magnetized neutron star. The discovery, reported in the …
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[ad_1] A computerized simulation of accretion disks and misaligned rings around a supermassive black hole can collide and tear, allowing the gas to fall directly into the central hole at huge speeds …
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[ad_1] The trailer has a refrigerated interior that helps stabilize the telescope and batteries can power a WiFi hotspot, a laptop station and a UHF transmitter for data relay. In addition, the …
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Read More »Hubble captures a broad view of the Galaxy Abell 370 cluster | Astronomy
[ad_1] Astronomers using the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a spectacular image of Abell 370, a galaxy of galaxies embedded among thousands of distant galaxies. Abell 370, a massive galaxy …
Read More »The artificial intelligence used to detect undetected fast radio bursts – Astronomy Now
[ad_1] The Green Bank observatory Robert C. Byrd has detected multiple fast radio bursts in a distant source of 3 billion light-years. Artificial intelligence algorithms helped researchers find 72 unpublished programs. Image: …
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[ad_1] The Moon is the celestial body closest to the Earth in the entire universe. We have been studying it for centuries, millennia, so you think we would have understood. But this …
Read More »Bad astronomy | PAN! BULLSEYE! The galactic collision creates a ring of black holes and neutron stars
[ad_1] Sometimes a story of astronomy reads like a lift pitch for a Hollywood blockbuster. "So you have a nice normal spiral galaxy, just, just doing it, when BAM! A smaller galaxy …
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