The first ever space telescope, the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2), was launched into the low Earth orbit in ...

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In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

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The satellite spotted a mysterious 150-second X-ray flare, named EP240414a, from a dying star 4 billion light-years away.

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