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1 month agoHubble catches rare view of a comet crumbling
Hubble Space Telescope captured accidental images of Comet K1 breaking into at least four pieces as it exited the solar system, revealing unusual chemical composition and offering insights into early solar system formation.
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1 month agoAstronomers watch the birth of a magnetar for the first time
Astronomers observed the birth of a magnetar, an extremely dense neutron star with the universe's most powerful magnetic fields, through a superluminous supernova's unusual flickering light pattern over 200 days.
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1 month agoHumanity receives mysterious 'mega-laser' signal from unknown source
This system is truly extraordinary. We are seeing the radio equivalent of a laser halfway across the universe. This galaxy acts as a lens, the way a water droplet on a window pane would, because its mass curves the local space-time. So we have a radio laser passing through a cosmic telescope before being detected by the powerful MeerKAT radio telescope.
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1 month agoSomething May Be Scrambling Alien Messages, NASA-Funded Research Finds
Space weather phenomena near alien planets could broaden and scatter extraterrestrial signals across multiple frequencies, making them undetectable by current SETI searches focused on narrow frequency bands.
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1 month agoNASA's next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed
NASA cancelled the AXIS X-ray mission in March 2026 due to programmatic constraints, delaying the next major X-ray observatory by a decade to the 2050s-2060s, despite Chandra's 1999 launch making it outdated for current scientific needs.
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1 month agoSETI admits its search for ET may be too narrowly focussed
If a signal gets broadened by its own star's environment, it can slip below our detection thresholds, even if it's there, potentially helping explain some of the radio silence we've seen in technosignature searches. This statement from Dr. Vishal Gajjar highlights how stellar environmental factors may cause detectable signals to become invisible to current SETI instruments.
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1 month agoAstronomer Who Discovered Water on Distant Planet Murdered Outside Home
Carl Grillmair, a renowned Caltech astronomer who studied exoplanets and stellar streams, was shot and killed outside his home in Antelope Valley; a suspect was arrested and charged with his murder.
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1 month agoAstronomers Spot Huge Microwave Laser Blasting Into Space
This system is truly extraordinary. We're seeing the radio equivalent of a laser halfway across the universe. Fundamentally, masers and lasers are focused beams of light in the same frequency. In the realm of astrophysics, these can arise from clouds of dust being excited into a higher energy state from the light emitted by other sources, like stars and black holes.
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2 months agoScientists may have discovered a pulsar at the Milky Way's hearta result that could reveal new physics
A pulsar near Sagittarius A* would enable more precise measurements of spacetime and gravitational effects around the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole.
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2 months agoHave astronomers witnessed the birth of a black hole?
A bright star in a nearby galaxy has essentially vanished. Astronomers believe that it died and collapsed in on itself, transforming into the eerie cosmic phenomenon known as a black hole. "It used to be one of the brightest stars in the Andromeda galaxy," says Kishalay De, an astronomer with Columbia University and the Flatiron Institute. "Today, it is nowhere to be seen, even with the most sensitive telescopes."
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