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NASA is launching rockets into the Northern Lights from Alaska to investigate why auroras have distinct movements such as flickering and pulsating.

Following in the footsteps of Aristotle and Galileo, NASA scientists look to take the next step in understanding auroras.

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Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

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Supermassive black holes can have trillions of times more mass than the Sun, only exist in specific locations, and could ...

Surrounded by glowing discs of swirling gas, quasars emit immense light that can be seen across vast cosmic distances.