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The Heart of the Milky Way Glows With Unprecedented Detail in New Webb Image
The center of our galaxy is a menagerie of exotic objects; a supermassive black hole, clouds of hot gas, and giant stars that can help inform the origin story of much of the universe. Using the Webb telescope, scientists got to see this chaotic region of the Milky Way in a different light, revealing new…
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CSIRO Finds Most Distant Fast Radio Burst (and It Offers a Way to Weigh the Universe)
The unprecedented signal likely comes from a set of merging galaxies eight billion light-years away.
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Astronomers Surprised By a Distant Black Hole Roaring Back to Life
The distant object suddenly started feeding after a prolonged silence.
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Latest Image Shows the Awesome Power of the Webb Space Telescope
The Webb Space Telescope has passed a critical milestone in its commissioning phase, as mission controllers fully aligned the observatory’s primary imager.