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The Details Are Unreal in New Webb Image of Famous Horsehead Nebula
The Webb Space Telescope has given us another cosmic treat. The young observatory captured a closer look of the ethereal clouds of dust and gas that form a nearby nebula, illuminated by a companion star in the constellation Orion. Located a mere 1,375 light-years away, the Horsehead Nebula is shaped like a celestial horse galloping…
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Astronomers Spot Most Distant Galactic Magnetic Field Ever With Giant Desert Telescope
A team of scientists looking at a faraway galaxy using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected that galaxy’s magnetic field, making it the most distant galactic magnetic field yet detected. It’s not known how early magnetic fields formed around galaxies, so the new finding importantly pushes back that timeline. The astronomers used ALMA…
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New Evidence That Supermassive Black Holes Eventually Suck The Life Out Of Big Galaxies
At the core of each large galaxy lies a supermassive black hole with the mass of 1 million suns. New research shows that these celestial vacuum cleaners do more than just devour nearby objects – they also grow to a size that eventually suppresses a galaxy’s ability to churn out new stars, effectively rendering them…
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Astronomers Have Discovered The Most Desolate Place In The Milky Way
An international team of astronomers has discovered a huge expanse of space near the centre of the Milky Way that’s devoid of young stars. This stellar desert extends for 8000 light-years from the galactic core — and it hasn’t produced new stars for hundreds of millions of years.