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Hubble’s Dazzling Display of Galaxies

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Hubble’s Dazzling Display of Galaxies This busy image is a treasure trove of wonders. Bright stars from the Milky Way sparkle in the foreground, the magnificent swirls of several spiral galaxies are visible across the frame, and a glowing assortment of objects at the center makes up a massive galaxy…

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Curious Kids: How do wormholes work?

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Curious Kids: How do wormholes work? The existence of wormholes is not forbidden by our current theories of the universe. So we can say that they do exist in theory. Marcella Cheng/The Conversation NY-BD-CC, CC BY-SA Hannah Middleton, University of Melbourne This is an article from Curious Kids, a series…

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NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Leaves Scientific ‘Treasure Trove’

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NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer Leaves Scientific ‘Treasure Trove’ NASA’s decommissioned Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite re-entered Earth’s atmosphere on April 30. Orbiting for more than 22 years, the 6,700-pound satellite operated from 1996 to 2012, providing scientists with an unprecedented look into the extreme environments around neutron stars…

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NASA’s Next Major Telescope to See the Big Picture of the Universe

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NASA’s Next Major Telescope to See the Big Picture of the Universe NASA is beginning to design its next big astrophysics mission, a space telescope that will provide the largest picture of the universe ever seen with the same depth and clarity as the Hubble Space Telescope. Scheduled to launch…

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Hints of extra dimensions in gravitational waves?

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Hints of extra dimensions in gravitational waves? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam found that hidden dimensions – as predicted by string theory – could influence gravitational waves. In a recently published paper they study the consequences of extra dimensions on these…