Astronomers Pinpoint Origins of Mysterious Signal That Traveled 200 Million Years To Reach Us
The fleeting cosmic firework likely originated within the turbulent magnetosphere surrounding a distant neutron star. Fast ...
NASA joins telescope, instruments to Roman spacecraft
Technicians have successfully integrated NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's payload—the telescope, instrument carrier ...
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New Measurements Taken By The James Webb Space Telescope Seem To Confirm That We Don’t Know How Fast The Universe Is Really Expanding
There are two main options when figuring out what the rate of expansion for the universe actually is. First, measurements of ...
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Astronaut Set to Patch NASA’s X-ray Telescope Aboard Space Station
NASA astronaut Nick Hague will install patches to the agency’s NICER (Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer) X-ray ...
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8 Years Later, Scientists Solve The Mystery Of A Weird Cosmic Radio Signal
Discover how scientists traced a mysterious radio signal from an ultra-dense neutron star 200 million light-years away, ...
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Earth received a strange radio burst: NASA just discovered where it came from
Researchers are one step closer to understanding the universe after tracing a powerful radio burst's origins to a magnetar ...
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Understanding mysterious magnetars and radio bursts with gravitational waves
Scientists from an international team have used data from the German-British GEO600 detector to study a nearby neutron star ...
In "groundbreaking discovery," Webb telescope spots record number of stars in distant galaxy
A phenomenon called gravitational lensing turned a galaxy into a "hall of mirrors of cosmic proportions," allowing for the discovery.
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James Webb Space Telescope spots record-breaking collection of stars in far-flung galaxy
"I never dreamed of Webb seeing them in such large numbers." ...
Scientists reveal source of mysterious radio signal that travelled for 200 million years to reach Earth
A mysterious radio blast from space detected in 2022 originated in the magnetic field of an ultra-dense neutron star 200 million light years away. Known as fast radio bursts, or FRB, such brief ...
Fast radio burst confirmed to originate from neutron star
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are notoriously difficult to study. They are flashes of radio light that can outshine a galaxy but ...
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Astronomers have pinpointed the origin of mysterious repeating radio bursts from space
In new research, we have for the first time tracked one of these pulsating signals back to its source: a common kind of lightweight star called a red dwarf, likely in a binary orbit with a white dwarf ...