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    2400 New Eyes on the Sky to see Cosmic Rainbows

    November 15, 2022, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    The new instrument for capturing cosmic rainbows mounted on the top of the Subaru Telescope. (Credit: Kavli IPMU)

    The Subaru Telescope successfully demonstrated engineering first light with a new instrument that will use about 2400 fiberoptic cables to capture the light from heavenly objects. Full operation is scheduled to start around 2024. The ability to observe thousands of objects simultaneously will provide unprecedented amounts of data to fuel Big Data Astronomy in the coming decade.

    In addition to cameras, astronomers also use instruments known as spectrographs to study celestial object. A spectrograph breaks the light from an object into its component colors, in other words it creates a precise rainbow...

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    Death of a Star reveals Midsize Black Hole lurking in a Dwarf Galaxy

    November 11, 2022, Categories  Astronomy/Space

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    Astronomers discovered a star being ripped apart by a black hole in the galaxy SDSS J152120.07+140410.5, 850 million light years away. Researchers pointed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to examine the aftermath, called AT 2020neh, which is shown in the center of the image. Hubble’s ultraviolet camera saw a ring of stars being formed around the nucleus of the galaxy where AT 2020neh is located. (Credit: NASA, ESA, Ryan Foley/UC Santa Cruz)

    An intermediate-mass black hole lurking undetected in a dwarf galaxy revealed itself to astronomers when it gobbled up an unlucky star that strayed too close...

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    Red-Supergiant Supernova: Secrets of an Earlier Universe

    November 10, 2022, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Four images of supernova exploding
    Panels A-D (clockwise from upper left) show several different stages of the supernova: the location of the host galaxy after the supernova faded, the three images of the host galaxy and the supernova at different phases in its evolution, the three different faces of the evolving supernova, and the different colors of the cooling supernova. Photo credit: Wenlei Chen, NASA

    Detailed telescope images help scientists learn more about the Universe two billion years after the Big Bang. An international research team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has measured the size of a star dating back 2 billion years after the Big Bang, or more than 11 billion years ago...

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    Huge Extragalactic Structure found Hiding behind the Milky Way

    November 10, 2022, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Huge extragalactic structure found hiding behind the Milky Way
    False-color Z (blue), J (green), and Ks (red) image of a region corresponding to the galaxy group/cluster candidate. The red dashed circle delimits the six arcmin radius central area, the green lines indicate the two long-slit positions and the red squares show the five galaxies observed with F2. In the right panels we zoomed the 58 galaxy candidates within the studied area. The length of each box side is 20 arcsec. Credit: arXiv (2022). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2210.16332

    A team of researchers with members from Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and Universidad Andres Bello has found evidence of a large extragalactic assembly hiding behind one part of the Milky Way galaxy...

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