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The grainy image of a “super-Jupiter” is a sign of what’s to come as the telescope’s exoplanet observations ramp up ..read more
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Supermassive black holes have come to the fore as engines of galactic evolution, but new observations of the Milky Way and its central hole don’t yet hang together ..read more
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1y ago
Nia Imara is working to understand the mysterious clouds of gas and dust that collapse into stars ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Astrophysics
1y ago
In the days after the mega-telescope started delivering data, astronomers reported new discoveries about galaxies, stars, exoplanets and even Jupiter ..read more
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The space telescope is one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken. Marcia Rieke and Nikole Lewis, two of the scientists leading JWST investigations, talk to Steven Strogatz about how it may transform our understanding of the universe ..read more
Quanta Magazine » Astrophysics
2y ago
Observations of faraway planets have forced a near-total rewrite of the story of how our solar system came to be ..read more
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2y ago
Researchers say we’re on the cusp of “GoPro physics,” where a camera can point at an event and an algorithm can identify the underlying physics equation ..read more
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In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope released a historic image of a supermassive black hole in another galaxy. The follow-up — an image of Sagittarius A* — shows it shimmering at the center of our own ..read more
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2y ago
Dwarf galaxies weren’t supposed to have big black holes. Their surprise discovery has revealed clues about how the universe’s biggest black holes could have formed ..read more
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2y ago
When astronomers tried to confirm a signal from the birth of the first stars after the Big Bang, they saw nothing ..read more