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That artist rendition above sure is freaky eh? Well probably not yet until you hear this: University of California, Berkeley, astronomers have discovered the largest black holes to date ‑- two monsters with masses equivalent to 10 billion suns that are threatening to consume anything from your north face fleeceto even light, within a region [...]

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Over the past year, NASA’s Voyager 1 has been sending back data from outside our solar system where it now resides. The spacecraft is about 11 billion miles from the sun, and not yet in interstellar space. “Voyager tells us now that we’re in a stagnation region in the outermost layer of the bubble around [...]

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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is considered one of the most prominent observatories in astronomy education and outreach. While most of the data collected is of a scientific nature and will not produce stunning color images, a new program called the Cosmic Gems Programme aimed at obtaining images with the ESO telescopes for the purposes [...]

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NASA’s Swift satellite and the Chandra X-ray Observatory has found a second supersized black hole at the heart of an unusual nearby galaxy. What is unusual is that the galaxy is already known to be housing another monster black hole. They reside about 11,000 light years away from each other and 425 million light years [...]

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A new $1 billion telescope project is expected to be built in Chile’s northern desert. The 42-meter European Extremely Large Telescope (sounds like an

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