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Runaway supermassive black hole is hurtling through space followed by tail of infant stars (video)

A runaway supermassive black hole ejected from its own galaxy, possibly in a tussle with two other black holes, is being trailed by a 200,000 light-year-long chain of infant stars, a new study reports.

SpaceX launches Intelsat relay station carrying NASA air pollution monitor

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Lighting up the overnight sky, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaked into orbit early Friday carrying an Intelsat communications satellite hosting a $210 million NASA-Smithsonian spectrometer designed to measure air quality and pollution across North ...

Planetary Society leads the charge to save NASA's VERITAS Venus mission

"The Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography And Spectroscopy (VERITAS) mission is facing a critical juncture. NASA has indefinitely delayed the launch date and removed program development outlays for FY [fiscal year] 2024 and beyond.

Dwarf star is surrounded by massive 'double ring' that hints at a Saturn-size exoplanet

Observations of a distant red dwarf star indicate that it is surrounded by not one but two massive rings of gas and dust, with tantalizing hints that it is orbited by a Saturn-size planet. The red dwarf, known as 2MASS J04124068+2438157, is located ...

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The Sky This Week: Venus pairs with the Pleiades

Astronomy Magazine

Sunrise: 6:31 A.M.. Sunset: 7:33 P.M.. Moonrise: 11:46 P.M.. Moonset: 8:18 A.M.. Moon Phase: Waning gibbous (87%).

This new AI-powered computer model can predict dangerous solar storms

When it comes to weather, prediction is the key to preventing disaster — and that's true of space weather, too. A new AI-powered computer model called DAGGER is specifically trained to predict precisely when and where solar storms will strike Earth, ...

Eggs are a symbol of new life but they also have lots to say about the past

Eggs have been laid on land by birds, reptiles, dinosaurs and a few oddball mammals for more than 200 million years. And humans have been using some of these eggs as a nutritious source of food ...

See Uranus' rings in stunning new image from the Webb telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new stunning image of ice giant Uranus, with almost all its faint dusty rings on display. The image is representative of the telescope's significant sensitivity, NASA said, ...

Zoom in on Mars like never before with this epic 3D map of the Red Planet

If you're the kind of person who can spend hours upon hours clicking around Google Earth, there's a new toy for you. NASA has just released the most detailed 3D map of Mars ever made. Created by the Bruce Murray Laboratory for Planetary Visualization ...

James Webb Space Telescope spots the Cosmic Seahorse through a gravitational lens (photo)

While the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) might be the most powerful off-Earth observatory ever, there are limits to how far it can see. Fortunately, JWST's already-sharp vision is aided by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, as a stunning new ...