Outer Space
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Smallest known galaxy with a supermassive black hole
A University of Utah astronomer and his colleagues discovered that an ultracompact dwarf galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole —…
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First evidence for water ice clouds found outside our solar system
A team of scientists led by Carnegie’s Jacqueline Faherty has discovered the first evidence of water ice clouds on an…
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Milky Way Part of Huge Supercluster of Galaxies
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Telescope (GBT) — among other telescopes — have determined that our own…
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First Ever Sighting of Galaxy Core Formation
Astronomers have for the first time gotten a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction. The building site,…
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Voyager map details Neptune’s strange moon Triton
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first close-up look at Neptune and its moon Triton in the summer of…
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