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A supernova from a merger with a black hole or neutron star

From EurekAlert: Astronomers have found dramatic evidence that a black hole or neutron star spiraled its way into the core…

black holes, compact objects, neutron stars, Radio Astronomy, supernova, Transients

China lands a rover on Mars

Last week China landed a rover on Mars. Named Zhurong, it landed in the northern Utopia Planitia region and will…

china, mars, Tianwen-1, Zhurong

New all-sky map shows the trail left by the Large Magellanic Cloud

Astronomers recently released the above map of the Milky Way’s furthest reaches — the galactic halo. The band across the…

dark matter, gaia, large magellanic cloud, milky way, neowise

Ingenuity Mars helicopter moves to a new location

On Friday, the Ingenuity helicopter took its fifth flight on Mars. For the first time it landed in a new…

ingenuity, mars, Perseverance

Chinese rocket booster to crash somewhere this weekend

It’s not going to hit you (probably), but a Chinese Long March 5B rocket booster is going to crash somewhere…

china, long march, space debris

A Black Hole Feeding on an Ageing Star Powers a Mysterious Microquasar

A new paper by Qin Han and Xiang-Dong Li of Nanjing University, due to be published in the Astrophysical Journal,…

black holes, Microquasars, SS433, W50

Comets Splitting into Comets, Splitting into Comets…

See that cluster of bright objects in the above image? Those are fragments of a comet called C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS)…

Comets, hubble, Kreutz sungrazers

The Lives of Long Lasting Lineae

NASA has released this beautiful close up of the rim of a Martian impact crater, taken by the HiRISE camera…

HiRISE, mars, MRO

ESO Sees a Star’s Orbit Precess Around a Supermassive Black Hole

The European Southern Observatory has observed the way a star’s orbit changes as it circles the supermassive black hole at…

black holes, Relativity, S2

Hayabusa2 is coming home

Japan’s Hayabusa2 probe has successfully completed its mission at the asteroid Ryugu and is now on its way home. It’s…

Apollo, Asteroids, Genesis, Hayabusa2, Sample Return

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