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April 17, 2025, 02:38 PM - 6 min read
The CMZ spans almost 700 light years and contains some of the densest molecular gas in the galaxy. Over the years, scientists have found that this region is unusually ionised, meaning the hydrogen molecules there are being split into charged particles (electrons and nuclei) at a much faster rate than expected.
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March 12, 2025, 12:57 PM - 4 min read
NASA’s Spherex telescope successfully launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket, set to survey millions of galaxies and decode the universe’s evolution. The mission, valued at $488 million, aims to map the entire sky in infrared, capturing cosmic history through an unprecedented approach.
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January 27, 2025, 01:57 PM - 6 min read
As far as astronomers know, all galaxies harbour a supermassive black hole at their very centres. In some galaxies, large amounts of interstellar gas are spiralling around the supermassive black hole and getting pulled in beyond the event horizon and essentially on to the black hole.
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January 1, 2024, 02:35 PM - 2 min read
A scientific balloon carrying the GUSTO mission took flight from Antarctica Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m. local time (Dec. 31, 1:30 a.m EST). The balloon is floating 128,000 feet above Earth’s surface, NASA posted on 'X'
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