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Where Does Gold Come From? NASA Data Has Clues
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Since the big bang, the early universe had hydrogen, helium, and a scant amount of lithium. Later, some heavier elements,…
Apr 29, 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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Illustration of Magnetar
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This is an artist's impression of a magnetar, which is a special type of neutron star with an incredibly strong…
Apr 15, 2025
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NASA’s Hubble Tracks a Roaming Magnetar of Unknown Origin
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Researchers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the magnetar called SGR 0501+4516 is traversing our galaxy from an unknown…
Apr 15, 2025
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NASA Telescopes Find New Clues About Mysterious Deep Space Signals
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Using two of the agency’s X-ray telescopes, researchers were able to zoom in on a dead star’s erratic behavior as…
Feb 14, 2024
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A Star That Bursts, Blinks and Disappears
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“Twinkle, twinkle little star” goes the nursery rhyme. Now, astronomers are reporting on a strange case where one of the…
Sep 30, 2008
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