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Euclid finds its first previously unknown comet
Software spotted a moving streak in images from a telescope built to map distant galaxies.
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NASA advances a glass telescope for the LISA mission
The future observatory will measure distance changes across a 2.5-million-kilometer triangle in space.
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Webb finds a tiny galaxy behind the most distant radio burst
The signal came from an era when the universe was about 3 billion years old.
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SPHEREx reads the chemistry of 37 brown dwarfs
The observations expose gaps in models of the clouds surrounding these star-like objects.
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Black hole jets reach 10 to 20 times past a galaxy's visible edge
Astronomers saw glowing gas far outside hundreds of galaxies, lined up with the jets of their central black holes.
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Pulsar's 42-light-year X-ray tail explains mysterious gamma rays
The trail behind PSR J1740+1000 is the longest known and lines up with radiation that had no identified source.
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Any moon of Venus would have spiraled down and crashed, model shows
A UC Riverside simulation finds the planet's slow, backward spin drags orbiting moons toward its surface.