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A NASA satellite that’s been orbiting as space junk since 1967, Relay 2, emitted an unexpected, powerful radio burst that ...
"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...
Using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA), astronomers have performed large-scale radio observations of a ...
The decade-long wait for U.K. astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.
"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, ...
Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...
After taking a closer look, however, the team realized that the only viable source for the burst was NASA’s dead Relay 2, a ...
A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers have identified a massive filament of hot gas connecting four galaxy ...
Radio telescopes saw a strange burst of unknown energy in June 2024. Now we know it was from Relay 2, an early ...
Source of the radio waves was tracked to a location that matches that of NASA’s defunct Relay 2 spacecraft, which launched in ...
Most disks observed were about 30 astronomical units wide, roughly 30 times the Earth-Sun distance. The presence of intricate structures in such early systems implies a parallel evolution of infant ...
Astronomers discovered that C/2014 UN271, a massive comet more than 10 times larger than any known comet, is emitting jets of ...