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NASA’s Hubble Sees Asteroids Colliding at Nearby Star for First Time
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Like a game of cosmic bumper cars, scientists think the early days of our solar system were a time of violent turmoil, with planetesimals, asteroids, and comets smashing together and pelting the Earth, Moon, and the other inner planets with…
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NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles
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For the first time, astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have traced a budding outflow of gas from a cluster of young stars in our galaxy — insights that help us understand how the universe has evolved as NASA…
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NASA IXPE’s Longest Observation Solves Black Hole Jets Mystery
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Written by Michael Allen An international team of astronomers using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole’s jet, answering a question that has been unresolved since the earliest days of…
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