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Swift Spots Mega Black Hole Shredding Star
12+ hour, 37+ min ago (485+ words) NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an "orphan" black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy. These phenomena are rare to begin with, and none had ever before been seen so far…...
UK Infrastructure Tested by Strongest Northern Lights
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (543+ words) Millions of people across the UK marvelled at the spectacular Northern Lights that lit up the night sky in May 2024. But while the display captivated skywatchers, the geomagnetic storm behind it also served as the biggest test in a generation…...
Decade Of Cosmic Discovery
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (475+ words) Mirage News After 10 years of observing the shapes of 61 million distant galaxies, the UNIONS (Ultraviolet Near Infrared Optical Northern Survey) collaboration is sharing data that provides strong evidence supporting the standard model of cosmology that the universe is dominated by…...
Mount Kent Observatory: From Water Tanks to White Dwarfs
2+ week, 1+ day ago (783+ words) By May Reardon, UniSQ Astronomy and Creative Writing student This month, UniSQ celebrates the 30th anniversary of the official opening of Mount Kent Observatory – a facility that has grown into one of Australia's leading centres for astronomical research and education. Yet…...
Waxing Gibbous Moon 11 July
2+ week, 3+ day ago (190+ words) Mirage News The waxing gibbous moon is nestled in the darkness of space in this June 26, 2026, image from the International Space Station. The space station was 264 miles above the Indian Ocean southeast of Madagascar at the time. The waxing gibbous…...
Curiosity Sees Martian Sulfur Up Close
2+ week, 4+ day ago (171+ words) Mirage News This close-up view shows fragments of sulfur crystals - the first ever seen on the Red Planet. The crystals were found after NASA's Curiosity Mars rover happened to drive over a rock and crush it on May 30, 2024. Several days…...
Observing Oscillations, Flares And Tornados On Sun
2+ week, 4+ day ago (329+ words) The Sunrise III mission offers a completely new view of the sun. First results have now been published Launch of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III on July 10th, 2024. © SSC (Mattias Forsberg) A sunspot imaged by the SUSI instrument on Sunrise…...
Mars Rover May Finally Uncover Life on Red Planet
2+ week, 4+ day ago (748+ words) Mars was not always the cold, dry world we see today. Billions of years ago, scientists believe it may have been warm, wet, and wrapped in a much thicker atmosphere, creating conditions that could have supported simple microbial life. Even…...
Telescope Makers At Brown Revel In Centuries-old Craft
2+ week, 4+ day ago (527+ words) Mirage News Working for months with staff members in the Department of Physics, a group of students and faculty from Brown and RISD learned the art and science of high-precision optics to make their own powerful telescopes by hand. PROVIDENCE,…...
AstroFest 2026: Four Nights of Stargazing July 8-11
2+ week, 6+ day ago (804+ words) Mirage News The Penn State Eberly College of Science's popular AstroFest program, a longtime outreach event offered by the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, will welcome visitors to Davey Laboratory on the University Park campus from Wednesday, July 8, through Saturday,…...