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This image of the star cluster NGC 346, captured by Webb's Near-Infrared Camera. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Olivia C. Jones (UK ATC), Guido De Marchi (ESTEC), Margaret Meixner (USRA))

Webb telescope confirms planetary theory

Matthew Rozsa
This image of NGC 5468, a galaxy located about 130 million light-years from Earth, combines data from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Adam G. Riess (JHU, STScI))

James Webb challenges cosmic theories

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Big Bang, conceptual image (Getty Images/ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Did alien life form after the Big Bang?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Astronomers have found the most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy, thanks to the wobbling motion it induces on a companion star. This artist’s impression shows the orbits of both the star and the black hole, dubbed Gaia BH3, around their common centre of mass. (ESO/L. Calçada)

Unexpected massive black hole discovery

Rae Hodge
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A view of the Milky Way supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* in polarized light. (EHT Collaboration)

Black hole pic reveals Milky Way enigma

Rae Hodge
Gravitation waves, 3D illustration (Getty Images/andreusK)

Hunting for sources of gravitational hum

Nicole Karlis
Artist’s impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background). (ESO/L. Calçada)

These bright blue stars form threesomes

Matthew Rozsa
Artist concept of the Milky Way (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

New studies on how galaxies form spirals

Nicole Karlis
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This image captures not only Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab, but one of the celestial specimens Rubin Observatory will observe when it comes online: the Milky Way. (Rubin Observatory/NSF/AURA/B. Quint)

New observatory to map the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka
This illustration shows a messy, chaotic galaxy undergoing bursts of star formation. (ESA/NASA/L. Calçada)

Science explains "impossible" galaxies

Matthew Rozsa
This artist's concept shows the brilliant glare of two quasars residing in the cores of two galaxies that are in the chaotic process of merging. (NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI))

Astronomers solve a 60-year mystery

Troy Farah
X7 location relative to the supermassive black hole (Anna Ciurlo/UCLA)

The cloud at the center of the galaxy

Nicole Karlis
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A mosaic collected by James Webb of a region of space close to the Big Dipper, with insets showing the location of six new candidate galaxies from the dawn of the universe. (NASA, ESA, CSA, I. Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute’s Cosmic Dawn Center at the University of Copenhagen))

Webb sees galaxies that shouldn't exist

Matthew Rozsa
Ted Cruz, Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How the Republican black hole was formed

Kirk Swearingen
The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (Photo illustration by Salon/Chanda Prescod-Weinstein/Bold Type Books)

A physicist mulls a universe of bias

Joshua Roebke - Undark
Albert Einstein (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why physics needs another Einstein

Keith A. Spencer
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Hubble Ultra Deep Field conceptualized as a sphere (Nasa/Salon)

Why the universe may end with a crunch

Nicole Karlis
(Getty/Everlite/Leon Neal/Photo Montage by Salon)

Astrophysicist: 50-50 humanity is doomed

Travis Gettys - Raw Story
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The next big discovery in astronomy?

Eileen Meyer - The Conversation
Sensors on the Large Underground Xenon dark matter detector can register the emission of just a single photon from a dark matter interaction within the detector's giant xenon tank. So far, however, no signs of dark matter have been seen. (Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

We may be close to detecting dark matter

Keith A. Spencer
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(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

He treated us like family

Marika Taylor - The Conversation
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Hawking's theory of everything

Lorenzo Bianchi - The Conversation
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What we know because of Stephen Hawking

Christoph Adami - The Conversation
Sensors on the Large Underground Xenon dark matter detector can register the emission of just a single photon from a dark matter interaction within the detector's giant xenon tank. So far, however, no signs of dark matter have been seen. (Matt Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility)

Dark matter: the mystery substance

Dan Hooper - The Conversation
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