NASA's James Webb and X-ray telescopes combine powers to discover the most distant black hole ever in a rare state of infancy

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image of galaxy of stars with cross-section zoomed in on black hole speck
X-ray image of the msot distant black hole ever discovered.

X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/Ákos Bogdán; Infrared: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/L. Frattare & K. Arcand

Billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic lays off 185 employees as it doubles down on efforts to build new spaceships

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Virgin Galactic is opening a factory in 2024 that will produce its new Delta Class spaceships.

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The Euclid space telescope's first images show distant, hidden, and irregular galaxies that could help solve 2 of astronomy's grandest mysteries

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A photo of distant galleries, many millions of white spatters on a black background, like flecks of paint, and orange and purple orbs.
Euclid's view of irregular galaxy NGC 6822.

European Space Agency/Euclid Consortium/NASA; image processing by J.-C. Cuillandre, G. Anselmi

‘Dark universe’ space mission reveals its first colour images of the cosmos

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Why Europe is lagging behind in the spacetech race

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Photos show the Northern Lights appeared as far south as Texas on Sunday from a double eruption on the sun. Auroras could become more common as solar activity nears its peak.

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A picture of the northern lights spotted in Riverton, Wyoming.

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Tales of the TARDIS Makes Doctor Who Feel Like Forever

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“This song is ending,” the Tenth Doctor is told as he limps painfully back to the TARDIS to begin his regeneration in “The End of Time,” “but the story never ends.” It’s an incredibly Doctor Who thing that this poignancy is delivered by a

I meticulously schedule the world's most powerful space telescope, the James Webb, so we can capture the cosmos in ways we've never seen before

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Kari Bosley is in charge of planning when giant satellites will make contact with the James Webb Space Telescope as it moves through outerspace.

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope imaged a stunning supernova remnant and revealed details Hubble couldn't capture

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Image of Crab Nebula taken by Hubble on left and by JWST on right.
One of the features JWST reveals so clearly in the Crab Nebula is the dense, spinning pulsar at the nebula's center. The pulsar isn't nearly as obvious in the Hubble image (on left).

Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, J. Hester, A. Loll (Arizona State University); Webb Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, T. Temim (Princeton University).

Elon Musk says Starlink will offer internet access in Gaza to 'internationally recognized aid organizations'

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X (formerly Twitter) CEO Elon Musk leaves a US Senate bipartisan Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insight Forum at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2023
Elon Musk is CEO of SpaceX, which owns Starlink.

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