'It could illuminate an area the size of a football stadium': How Russia launched a giant space mirror in 1993
The Znamya project had the potential to change the world. The BBC's Tomorrow's World reported on an experiment that was ...
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Astronomers have brought you a space Valentine: The Tarantula of the cosmos
The Tarantula Nebula, also known as 30 Doradus, is revealed in an unusual light in this exceptionally deep Chandra X-ray ...
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Black holes snacking on small stars create particle accelerators that bombard Earth with cosmic rays
Gamma rays detected by NASA's Fermi spacecraft indicate that microquasars are powered by small black holes slowly devouring ...
A Decade-Long Particle Survey Could Shake Up Our Understanding of Cosmic Rays
Cosmic rays coming from outside the Solar System bring these particles closer to the Sun, where they experience changes ...
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Mysterious X-Ray Flash From Deep Space Baffles Scientists
Astronomers analyzing archived NASA data have stumbled upon a cosmic event unlike anything seen before—a brief but intense ...
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Einstein Probe catches X-ray odd couple
Lobster-eye satellite Einstein Probe captured the X-ray flash from a very elusive celestial pair. The discovery opens a new ...
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Probe captures massive star and white dwarf in X-ray
On May 27, the Wide-field X-ray Telescope detected X-rays from a new source, labeled EP J0052. Follow-up observations were conducted using the probe's Follow-up X-ray Telescope, as well as NASA's ...
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Probe catches rare evidence of massive star evolution
European Space Agency announced on Wednesday that the Einstein Probe satellite has captured a rare X-ray flash from an ...
Columbia Sportswear and Intuitive Machines Expand Scientific Partnership with Upcoming Lunar Mission
Two of Columbia Sportswear's patented technologies will help protect Intuitive Machines' lunar lander from the extreme ...
Einstein Probe Detects Mysterious Blast of X-Rays From the Early Universe
On March 15, 2024, a space-based observatory detected bursts of low-energy X-rays from deep in the ancient universe, ...
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Gamma rays create Red Hulk in Captain America: Brave New World, but how do they work in the real world?
While Space.com can't make you as well ... That means a gamma-ray burst can put out more energy than the sun would emit over many trillions of years, if our star was even capable of living longer ...