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Shedding the Cosmic Shroud: The Awakening of Distant Galactic Giant
When astronomers peer back to the very dawn of the cosmos, they expect to find small, chaotic galaxies still trying to pull themselves together. Instead, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) keeps finding galaxies so unexpectedly…
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Forecast for Brown Dwarfs: Cloudy with a Chance of Molten Sand
When you watch the clouds on Earth, you’re seeing water vapor that has cooled and condensed into liquid droplets or ice crystals. But if you were to travel to a brown dwarf, which is a celestial…
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How a 14-Tesla Magnet Could Hunt for High-Frequency Gravitational Waves
By taking a clever shortcut through the laws of electromagnetism, researchers in Germany are building Europe’s first tabletop-style detector to search for elusive high-frequency ripples in spacetime. Since 2015, colossal observatories like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave…
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The Silent Armada: Mapping Humanity’s Longest-Enduring Messages in the Deep
As we go about our daily lives on Earth, a tiny fleet of human-made objects is silently slipping away into the colossal, ink-black expanses of the cosmos. These spacecraft, some still whispering their data back to…
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The Ghost of TIC 160582982: Has TESS Found a Hidden Stellar-Mass Black Hole?
Astronomers have discovered a massive, unseen object lurking in the orbit of a distant, pulsating star. By “listening” to the rhythmic vibrations of the star TIC 160582982, researchers detected the gravitational tug of a mysterious companion…
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JWST Uncovers a Hidden Factory of Extreme Stars
Deep in the central bulge of our galaxy lie two incredibly dense ancient stellar systems known as “bulge fossil fragments.” For decades, these two crowded neighborhoods, designated Terzan 5 and Liller 1, have teased astronomers with…