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Yale astronomer leads the way to the oldest known X-ray quasar

Yale’s Priyamvada Natarajan and colleagues have identified the oldest known X-ray quasar — offering compelling proof of a concept Natarajan helped pioneer.

YaleNews

India launches X-ray astronomy satellite

India launched an astronomy satellite to start a year that features key tests for its human spaceflight program and a potential crewed mission with NASA.

SpaceNews

Newly Discovered Astronomical Object Is Right On The Edge Of Two Extreme Possibilities

The celestial body is either the heaviest neutron star or the lightest black hole ever observed.

IFLScience

India launches X-ray astronomy satellite

India launched an astronomy satellite to start a year that features key tests for its human spaceflight program and a potential crewed mission with NASA.

SpaceNews

Astronomers Just Got an Unusually Close Look At a Black Hole Devouring a Passing Star

Epic.

ScienceAlert

Astronomers make 1st-ever 3D map of Local Bubble's magnetic fields

The supernova-blown bubble in interstellar space is like a snow plow sweeping up gas and dust at its boundaries.

Space.com

Mysteriously bright flash is a black hole jet pointing straight toward Earth, astronomers say

Astronomers identified an extremely bright black hole jet, halfway across the universe, pointing straight toward Earth.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Black Hole Tears Apart Unlucky Star – NASA Gets Unusually Close View of Dramatic Destruction

NASA Gets Unusually Close Glimpse of Black Hole Destroying a Star Recent observations of a black hole devouring a wandering star may help scientists understand more complex black hole feeding behaviors. Multiple NASA telescopes recently observed a massive black hole tearing apart an unlucky star

SciTechDaily

What reionized the Universe, and when?

When did the Universe first become transparent? It’s a weird question, but an important one. The Universe started off opaque, but became transparent some time after, and remains that way even today. It’s literally why we can see distant objects in the sky, and in a more existential sense that moment of cosmic transparency affected…

SYFY Official Site

Astronomers Discover Clouds of Sand In The Atmosphere of A Failed Star

Yet another stunning new first for JWST.

ScienceAlert

Is dark matter real? Astronomy’s multi-decade mystery

Despite recent advances in astrophysics and astronomy, scientists still don't understand exactly how galaxies can exist.

Big Think

Snapshot: Astronomers find glowing gas around a baby planet

The ALMA radio telescope may have spotted the third known circumplanetary disk.

Astronomy Magazine

Most distant dark matter ever found dates back 12 billion years

A new study uses a signal emitted shortly after the Big Bang, the cosmic microwave background, to explore how dark matter is distributed around ancient galaxies.

Astronomy Magazine

Rare Earth hypothesis: Why we might really be alone in the universe

The originators of the theory, Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee, explain to Astronomy why they think the development of complex life on other worlds is likely extraordinarily rare.

Astronomy Magazine

Why don't Jupiter's rings look like Saturn's?

JWST's commissioning data contain stunning infrared images of Jupiter and its rings. Two researchers now know why those rings can't rival Saturn's, even though Jupiter is bigger.

Astronomy Magazine

Two Weeks In, the Webb Space Telescope Is Reshaping Astronomy | Quanta Magazine

In the days after the mega-telescope started delivering data, astronomers reported new discoveries about galaxies, stars, exoplanets and even Jupiter.

Quanta Magazine

How artificial intelligence is changing astronomy

Machine learning has become an essential piece of astronomers’ toolkits.

Astronomy Magazine

Black hole debunkers discover a sleeping giant

Researchers may have located a supernovaless black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomy Magazine

Astronomers Discover 40,000 New Ring Galaxies | Sci.News

Using a new deep learning algorithm and data from the Galaxy Zoo citizen science project, astronomers have discovered 40,000 ring galaxies.

Sci.News: Breaking Science News

Astronomers Haven’t Been This Giddy in Years

The James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images, set to be released in days, will signal the start of a new era in space science.

The Atlantic

Hawaii law could break years-long astronomy impasse

A group including Native Hawaiians will now manage the mountain Maunakea, where Indigenous rights and astronomy have collided.

www.nature.com

She cataloged the stars—and changed the face of astronomy

From #maidlife to #astronomerlife, Williamina Fleming devoted her life to studying and discovering stars and other space phenomena.

Science

Star discovered orbiting Milky Way's supermassive black hole every 4 years

The discovery should help astronomers better understand the extreme conditions at the center of our galaxy and what can survive there.

Astronomy Magazine

Astronomers detect a radio “heartbeat” billions of light-years from Earth

Astronomers detected a persistent radio signal from a far-off galaxy that appears to flash with surprising regularity. Named FRB 20191221A, this fast radio burst, or FRB, is currently the longest-lasting FRB, with the clearest periodic pattern, detected to date.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Astronomers Find Evidence for Most Powerful Pulsar in Distant Galaxy - National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Astronomers using data from the VLA Sky Survey have discovered one of the youngest known neutron stars -- possibly as young as only 14 years. The dense remnant of a supernova explosion was revealed when bright radio emission powered by the pulsar's powerful magnetic field emerged from behind a thick shell of debris from the…

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Jupiter's moon Europa is getting salty

Well, this is very cool news: Astronomers have pretty much confirmed the presence of sodium chloride — table salt — on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa!

SYFY Official Site

Astronomers discover a multiplanet system nearby

MIT astronomers discovered a multiplanet system just 33 light-years from Earth, making it one of the closest known multiplanet systems. The system likely hosts at least two terrestrial, Earth-sized planets.

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ask Astro: How did the Big Bang start from the size of a pinhead?

Our universe is and has been expanding throughout its history, and this means that it was hotter and denser in the past than it is today.

Astronomy Magazine

Astronomer Working With Webb Said the new Images "Almost Brought him to Tears." We'll see Them on July 12th

The first images taken by James Webb will be released in a little more than a week! According to NASA, they are so moving that you may cry when you see them!

Universe Today

Just a moment...

www.axios.com

Cosmic radio pulses probe hidden matter around galaxies

Powerful radio pulses originating deep in the cosmos can be used to study hidden pools of gas cocooning nearby galaxies, according to a new study appearing in the journal Nature Astronomy.

phys.org

Why Do Astronomers Seek the Most Distant Galaxies?

By finding and studying the universe’s oldest objects, we can reveal hidden fundamental chapters of cosmic history

Scientific American