Zoom into the galaxy that hosted the longest gamma-ray burst yet
GRB 250702B is ‘the longest gamma-ray burst that astronomers have ever observed,’ according to NOIRLab. See imagery of the galaxy[…]
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Strange lemon-shaped exoplanet discovered by James Webb Space Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope has detected an odd lemon-shaped exoplanet, called PSR J2322-2650b, orbiting a pulsar. Full Story: https://www.space.com/astronomy/exoplanets/james-webb-space-telescope-discovers-a-lemon-shaped-exoplanet-unlike-anything-seen-before-what-the-heck-is-this[…]
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New Chandra X-ray Observatory ‘X-arithmetic’ technique ‘paints’ galaxy clusters
Using data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, an ‘X-arithmetic’ technique ‘sorts features in galaxy clusters and groups into three types[…]
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Fly around a Martian butterfly crater in animation created from orbiter observations
Observations from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter have been used to create this animation of a butterfly crater[…]
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Blastoff! Atlas V rocket launches 27 Amazon internet satellites
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket launched 27 Amazon Leo satellites from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station[…]
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