This is the sharpest view ever seen of a black hole's dusty disk
"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope."...
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"Instead of Webb's 6.5-meter diameter, it's like we are observing this region with a 13-meter space telescope."...
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A sample of a polymetallic nodule at the Viridian Biometals lab in Pasadena, California. | Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration took the next step toward unilaterally jumpstarting deep-sea min...
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The Wolf Moon is named for the hungry predators that sometimes can be heard howling in the winter month....
"Dark matter can be red hot when it is born, but still have time to cool down before galaxies begin to form."...
Ancient shoreline features hint that water on Mars once formed a vast ocean....
The iOptron 80mm scope is easy to use and suited to both white-light solar viewing and nighttime observations....
The restart, initially scheduled for Tuesday, had been pushed back after another technical issue related to the control rods' removal was detected last weekend....
This past week in San Francisco, thousands gathered outside of an aquarium to celebrate one of its residents, an alligator named Claude who died in December....
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