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Tag: Stars and Galaxies

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Piping Up at the Gates of Dawn

June 22, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on Piping Up at the Gates of Dawn

Astronomers have found the earliest and most distant galaxy yet.

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The Magnetic Heart of the Milky Way

April 19, 2024April 19, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on The Magnetic Heart of the Milky Way

A new map of the center of the Milky Way galaxy reveals details of its magnetic fields

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A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong

April 4, 2024April 4, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on A Tantalizing ‘Hint’ That Astronomers Got Dark Energy All Wrong

Scientists may have discovered a major flaw in their understanding of that mysterious cosmic force. That could be good news for the fate of the universe.

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As Stellar Observations Improve, Earth’s History and Future Get Fuzzier

March 25, 2024March 26, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on As Stellar Observations Improve, Earth’s History and Future Get Fuzzier

Astronomers have gotten better at tracking the motions of stars just beyond the solar system. But that’s made it harder to predict Earth’s future and reconstruct its past.

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As Stellar Observations Improve, Earth’s History and Future Get Fuzzier

March 25, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on As Stellar Observations Improve, Earth’s History and Future Get Fuzzier

Astronomers have gotten better at tracking the motions of stars just beyond the solar system. But that’s made it harder to predict Earth’s future and reconstruct its past.

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The Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking

February 12, 2024February 13, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on The Doomsday Clock Keeps Ticking

Are humans the only beings in the universe confronting global self-destruction? Or just the last ones standing?

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Dark Galaxies: What Happens When Stars Are Nearly Invisible

January 26, 2024January 26, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on Dark Galaxies: What Happens When Stars Are Nearly Invisible

To dark matter and dark energy, add dark galaxies — collections of stars so sparse and faint that they are all but invisible.

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A Famous Black Hole Gets a Second Look From Astronomers

January 24, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on A Famous Black Hole Gets a Second Look From Astronomers

Repeated studies of the supermassive black hole in the galaxy Messier 87 confirm that it continues to act as Einstein’s theory predicted it would.

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Galaxies in the Early Universe Were Shaped Like Bananas, Study Suggests

January 5, 2024January 8, 2024DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on Galaxies in the Early Universe Were Shaped Like Bananas, Study Suggests

Images from the Webb telescope suggest that newborn galaxies look weirder than expected. Exactly how screwy was physics at the dawn of time?

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How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air

December 24, 2023December 25, 2023DENNIS OVERBYEComments Off on How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air

Black holes were thought to arise from the collapse of dead stars. But a Webb telescope image showing the early universe hints at an alternative pathway.

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