Like gravitational waves (GWs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most powerful and mysterious astronomical phenomena today. These transient events consist of bursts that put out more energy...
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Astronomers Just Discovered a ‘Bear’ on Mars : ScienceAlert
Facial pareidolia is the human tendency or illusion of seeing facial structures in an everyday objects – such as seeing the “man in the Moon,” or the face of Jesus on a piece of...
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Astronomers Just Realized The Milky Way Is Too Big For Its Surroundings : ScienceAlert
Our home, the Milky Way, doesn’t seem particularly odd for a galaxy. Moderately-sized, spiral in shape, with a few kinks suggestive of a disruptive past. But astronomers have just identified a quirk never before...
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Astronomers May Have Solved The Mystery of The Bubbles Towering Over The Milky Way : ScienceAlert
When the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope entered low-Earth orbit in 2008, it opened our eyes to a whole new Universe of high-energy radiation. One of its more curious discoveries was the Fermi Bubbles: giant,...
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Astronomers Just Got an Unusually Close Look At a Black Hole Devouring a Passing Star : ScienceAlert
Back in March of 2021, a star in a galaxy 250 million light-years away was seen having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day indeed. There it was, minding its own business, when...
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Astronomers Have Discovered The ‘Poor Old Heart’ of The Milky Way : ScienceAlert
A smattering of stars scattered throughout the center of the Milky Way is the remnants of the ancient galactic core, when our galaxy was still new. Using measurements from the most accurate three-dimensional map...
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Astronomers ‘Surprised’ by The Cause of The Southern Ring Nebula’s Iconic Shape : ScienceAlert
The intricate whorls and curlicues of the Southern Ring Nebula – recently made famous for its place as one of the first objects imaged by JWST – are the product of at least four...
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Expecting a Dying Star, Astronomers Followed a Monstrous Flash to Something Else : ScienceAlert
A flash of powerful light from a galaxy just over a billion light-years away is upending our understanding of the most powerful explosions in the Universe. The gamma-ray burst appears to be the result...
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Astronomers Spot The Biggest Galaxy Ever, And The Scale Will Break Your Brain : ScienceAlert
Earlier this year, astronomers found an absolute monster of a galaxy. Lurking some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching 5 megaparsecs into space. That’s 16.3 million light-years long, and...
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Astronomers See a Star’s Final Scream Into a Black Hole Halfway Across The Universe : ScienceAlert
Light that traveled for more than 8.5 billion years to reach us was the last gasp of a dying star as a black hole swallowed it. Two separate teams of scientists determined that a...
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