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3.3 billion Milky Way objects revealed by colossal astronomical survey

An ambitious new survey of the Milky Way's galactic plane has revealed 3.32 billion cosmic objects in stunning detail. The enormous celestial catalog, possibly the largest of its type, was built using data from ...

Newfound ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are 'pristine fossils of the early universe'

Three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies have been discovered around a distant spiral galaxy with a mass similar to the Milky Way. The dwarf galaxies are believed to be around 12 billion years old, meaning their stars formed early in the universe's history, under ...

Black holes at galactic centers blast out 10 times more light than previously thought

Black holes residing at the center of galaxies produce way more energy than scientists previously thought, a new study has revealed. These so-called active galactic nuclei devour huge amounts of matter, releasing massive amounts of energy in the form ...

What time is the conjunction of Venus and Saturn on Sunday (Jan. 22)?

This weekend offers a fantastic opportunity to see two of the solar system's planets line up in the night sky. Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction, meaning they'll share the same right ascension — the equivalent of longitude in the celestial sphere ...

See '3 days in the life' of gorgeous green comet as it heads towards Earth (photo)

The comet's long orbital period (the amount of time it takes to complete one orbit of the sun) means that C/2022 E3 (ZTF) hasn't been seen from Earth in some 50,000 years.

Quantum simulator enables first microscopic observation of charge carriers pairing

Using a quantum simulator, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have observed pairs of charge carriers that may be responsible for the resistance-free transport of electric current in high-temperature superconductors.

Colliding Supermassive Black Holes Discovered in Nearby Galaxy

Scientific American

Scientific American

Such galaxy mergers are happening all the time, all over the universe, and they are important building blocks for larger-scale cosmic structure. Astrophysicists have many questions about this extraordinary process, but one mystery has ...

Parts of Greenland now hotter than at any time in the last 1000 years, scientists say

The Washington Post

The Washington Post

That's the finding from research that extracted multiple 100-foot or longer cores of ice from atop the world's second-largest ice sheet. The samples allowed the researchers to construct a new temperature record based on the ...

Emergent behavior observed in self-interacting light

Particles of light—photons—that are forced to interact with each other through specially structured glass demonstrate behavior evocative of the "fractional quantum Hall effect," a phenomenon that garnered the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics when ...

A window into the nanoworld: Scientists develop new technique to image fluctuations in materials

A team of scientists, led by researchers from the Max Born Institute in Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin in Germany and from Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States has developed a ...