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Astronomers Discover Magnetic Loops Around Supermassive Black Hole

December 11, 2024 at 8:00 am | News Release

NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its…

ALMA Reveals Planets Can Form Under Harsh Radiation

November 18, 2024 at 11:25 am | News Release

New observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) suggest that planet formation can occur even in harsh stellar…

Over 99.5% of residents in the National Radio Quiet Zone can now receive satellite internet service

October 25, 2024 at 1:30 pm | News Release

The vast majority of people within the areas of Virginia and West Virginia collectively known as the National Radio…

A Cosmic Chemical Breakthrough: Astronomers Discover New Building Blocks for Complex Organic Matter

October 24, 2024 at 2:00 pm | News Release

The element carbon is a building block for life, both on Earth and potentially elsewhere in the vast reaches…

Massive Stars Born from Violent Cosmic Collapse

October 22, 2024 at 8:00 am | News Release

Controlled chaos is a key part of forming massive stars. An international team of astronomers has observed evidence that…

AI Meets the Cosmos: Astronomers’ Ambitious Plan to Tackle Astronomical Big Data

October 21, 2024 at 9:19 am | News Release

Astronomers collect almost unbelievable amounts of data when they observe the Universe with telescopes. Some research collects petabytes of…

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