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NASA, JAXA XRISM Satellite X-rays Milky Way’s Sulfur
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An international team of scientists have provided an unprecedented tally of elemental sulfur spread between the stars using data from…

Jul 23, 2025
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NASA’s NICER Maps Debris From Recurring Cosmic Crashes
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Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating…

May 6, 2025
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Swift’s Science
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Originally designed as a satellite dedicated to studying GRBs — gamma-ray bursts, the most powerful explosions in the cosmos —…

Apr 23, 2025
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The Swift Spacecraft
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Swift launched into orbit on Nov. 20, 2004, as NASA’s Swift Gamma-ray Observatory. In 2018, NASA renamed the spacecraft in…

Apr 23, 2025
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Astronomers Catch Unprecedented Features at Brink of Active Black Hole
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International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never…

Jan 13, 2025
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