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NICER Status Update
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Jan. 24, 2025 NASA’s NICER Continues Science Operations Post Repair NASA crew aboard the International Space Station installed patches to…

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Hubble Reveals Surprising Spiral Shape of Galaxy Hosting Young Jet
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The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars,…

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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…

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NASA’s Webb Provides Another Look Into Galactic Collisions
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Smile for the camera! An interaction between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, collectively known as Arp 107, seems…

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NASA’s Hubble, Chandra Find Supermassive Black Hole Duo
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Like two Sumo wrestlers squaring off, the closest confirmed pair of supermassive black holes have been observed in tight proximity.…

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Hubble Examines a Busy Galactic Center
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy IC 4709 located around 240 million light-years away in the…

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How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Will Illuminate Cosmic Dawn
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Today, enormous stretches of space are crystal clear, but that wasn’t always the case. During its infancy, the universe was…

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NASA, JAXA XRISM Spots Iron Fingerprints in Nearby Active Galaxy
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After starting science operations in February, Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) studied the monster black hole at the…

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X-ray Satellite XMM-Newton Sees ‘Space Clover’ in a New Light
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Astronomers have discovered enormous circular radio features of unknown origin around some galaxies. Now, new observations of one dubbed the…

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