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NASA’s Webb Identifies Earliest Supernova to Date, Shows Host Galaxy
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has observed a supernova that exploded when the universe was only 730 million years old — the earliest detection of its kind to date. Webb’s crisp near-infrared images also allowed astronomers to locate the supernova’s…
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Black Hole Eats Star: NASA Missions Discover Record-Setting Blast
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Astronomers have been poring over a flood of data from NASA satellites and other facilities as they try to work out what was responsible for an extraordinary cosmic outburst discovered on July 2. The event was a GRB (gamma-ray burst),…
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Hubble Spots a Storm of New Stars
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy named NGC 1792. Located over 50 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Columba (the Dove), the bright glow of the galaxy’s center is offset by…
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