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Astronomers tally space science’s growing carbon footprint
For generations, astronomers spent lonely evenings at distant mountaintop observatories watching the stars and planets as they whirled through the…
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4 years on, a new test shows no sign of ‘Cosmic Dawn’
When the hydrogen atoms first formed, they absorbed and then emitted around 21 cm of radiation at an equal rate,…
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Scientists Mapped the Dark Matter Web Surrounding the Milky Way
Astronomers have naturally focused their telescopes on the part of the universe closest to us, as those stars and galaxies…
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Any Single Galaxy Reveals Composition Of The Entire Universe
A group scientists may have stumbled upon a radical new way to study cosmology. Cosmologists usually determine the composition of…
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Astronomers want to save the dark sky from satellites
Last Thursday, on same day SpaceX launched 49 Starlink Internet relay satellites — joining more than 2,000 others in the…
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Astrophysicists publish the largest map of the universe ever
Only after seven several months, a huge team of scientists working with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument mapped an area…
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Looking for X-Factor ET: Evolution of the Stars
Stephen Kane is searching for stars that might harbor planets with mild, warm climates that favor life — you know,…
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Astronomers discover a strange galaxy with no dark matter
Three years ago, Filippo Fraternali and his colleagues discovered half a dozen mysterious diffuse galaxies, which look like cities full…
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Physics of the James Webb . Space Telescope
There’s actually another good reason to use infrared light for JWST: It’s very difficult to get an unobstructed view of…
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For Earth study next, NASA may need to throw some shade
The HabEx team proposed a 4-meter telescope paired with a heliograph and a 52-meter-diameter shadow. (Bertrand Mennesson, a NASA JPL…
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