3 Black Holes Caught Eating Massive Stars in NASA Data

Black holes are invisible to us unless they interact with something else. Some continuously eat gas and dust, and appear to glow brightly over time as matter

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Witch Nebula Casts Starry Spell - NASA

This 2013 image taken by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, captures a nebula that looks like a witch screaming. Perhaps that imagined

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NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1 Million Miles Per Hour - NASA Science

Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or […]

NASA Mission Concludes After Years of Successful Asteroid Detections - NASA

Engineers on NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission commanded the spacecraft to turn its transmitter off for the last

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NASA’s NEOWISE Infrared Heritage Will Live On - NASA

NASA’s near-Earth-object-hunting mission NEOWISE is nearing its conclusion. But its work will carry on with NASA’s next-generation infrared mission: NEO

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A Solar Neighborhood Census, Thanks to NASA Citizen Science

To take a census of nearby cosmic objects, sending out a survey won’t work. Scientists need to use many telescopes with different specializations to chart what is in the general neighborhood of the Sun. Looking to understand more about our neighbors and how they came to be, scientists collaborate with citizen scientists, volunteers from around […]

Discovery Alert: Glowing Cloud Points to a Cosmic Collision - NASA Science

Scientists find that a glowing cloud that obscured a star was caused by a cataclysmic collision of two giant exoplanets.

NASA’s NEOWISE Celebrates 10 Years, Plans End of Mission - NASA

The asteroid and comet-hunting infrared space telescope has gathered an impressive haul of observations, but it’s now at the mercy of the Sun, which is

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Data From NASA’s WISE Used to Preview Lucy Mission’s Asteroid Dinkinesh - NASA

Researchers have utilized infrared survey data to refine the asteroid’s size and surface brightness in support of the Nov. 1 encounter by NASA’s Lucy mission.

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