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The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

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The burst was so bright that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth’s upper atmosphere, surpassing the brightness of a ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

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The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...