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Nancy Roman Telescope?s Primary 2.4-Meter Mirror is Ready
08 Sep 00:00:23 | Universe Today
The Nancy Roman Telescope has reached another milestone in its development. NASA has announced that the space telescope’s primary mirror is now complete. The 2.4 meter (7.9 ft) mirror took less time to develop than other mirrors because it wasn’t built from scratch. It’s a re-shaped and re-surfaced mirror that came from the National Reconnaissance …
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Gravitational waves could show what?s happening inside a star as it?s going supernova
08 Sep 00:00:23 | Universe Today
It’s kind of hard to see inside a star as it’s blowing up, because of the whole “blowing up” part, but gravitational waves – tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime itself – may help astronomers unlock how the biggest stars die. It takes a lot of raw energy to power a supernova. When the …
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The Solar System has been Flying Through the Debris of a Supernova for 33,000 Years
06 Sep 00:00:28 | Universe Today
An Ancient Voyage Earth is on a journey? While our planet orbits the Sun each year – a billion kilometers – our entire Solar System is drifting through the Milky Way Galaxy making one rotation every 225-250 million years (that means dinosaurs actually lived on the other side of the Galaxy!) Humanity has been on …
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New Simulation Shows Exactly What Dark Matter Would Look Like If We Could See It
06 Sep 00:00:28 | Universe Today
A detailed simulation of dark matter finds that dark matter haloes form in a wide range of sizes.
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Review: Canadarm and Collaboration by Elizabeth Howell
05 Sep 00:00:07 | Universe Today
Think you know the Canadian space program? A new book may prove otherwise. The book is Canadarm and Collaboration: How Canada?s Astronauts and Space Robots Explore New Worlds by Elizabeth Howell, out on October 20th, 2020 by ECW Press.
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Neptune & Triton ? August 31, 1989.
05 Sep 00:00:07 | Universe Today
Image-processor extraordinaire Kevin Gill has reached back in time to give us a new image of Neptune and its moon Triton. When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Neptune and Triton in August 1989, its cameras were very busy. Kevin has taken separate color-filtered images from that visit and calibrated and combined them to give …
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Some Quasars Actually Contain Two Supermassive Black Holes in the Process of Merging
04 Sep 00:00:11 | Universe Today
Astronomers have found a powerful quasar powered by two supermassive black holes.
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SpaceX?s Starship Prototype Nails Another Hop Test! Bring on Orbital Flights!
04 Sep 00:00:11 | Universe Today
SpaceX has nailed the hop test once again and the Starship is on its way toward making high-altitude flights and trips to space!
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Quasars can twinkle
03 Sep 00:00:08 | Universe Today
It turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks. With a recent upgrade to a 50-year-old radio telescope, astronomers have spotted nearly a dozen of a rare class of quasars, ones capable of flickering in less than an hour. Quasars are among the most powerful sources of radiation in the universe. Powered by …
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Machine Learning Algorithm Scoops up 50 New Exoplanets
03 Sep 00:00:08 | Universe Today
A machine learning algorithm created by scientists in the UK has confirmed 50 new exoplanets, effectively opening the door to AI-enabled exoplanet studies!
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