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Cosmic ‘Lighthouses’ That Beam Gamma Rays Could Reveal Gravitational Waves All Around Us
A team of astronomers have compiled 12.5 years of data from the Fermi Gammy-ray Space Telescope to form a gamma-ray pulsar timing array, a system of cosmic lighthouses that could help reveal ripples in spacetime.
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In a Scientific First, Astronomers Capture a Complete View of Venus’s Orbital Dust Ring
A band of dust that follows Venus along its entire orbital path has finally been viewed in full, thanks to a series of fortuitous manoeuvres involving NASA’s Parker Solar Probe.
