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On December 12, 1970, NASA launched the Uhuru satellite, the first space telescope dedicated to observing X-rays from a platform off Kenya's coast.
A supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, influences stars within a hundred million times the density of Earth's orbit.
A black hole can be orbited safely from just 30 kilometers away, according to astrophysicist Janna Levin in a discussion about cosmic phenomena.
Two advanced space probes, one from NASA and the other from Europe, are studying the Sun's atmosphere and solar winds from within Mercury's orbit.
Peter Kalmus reduces his fossil fuel consumption to just 10% of the average American's usage while balancing family life in suburban California.
Peter Kalmus reduced his fossil fuel use to one-tenth of the average American, prompting a personal and societal examination of climate action.
Gravitational waves, first detected in 2015, ripple through spacetime, leaving permanent changes that may reveal new insights into the universe.
In June 2023, scientists from the North American Nano Hertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves detected a background of gravitational waves throughout the universe.
20 years of planning and construction culminate in LIGO's first search for gravitational waves, marking a new era in the study of the universe.
The Sun produces 10^38 neutrinos every second, which can be used to study black holes and their surrounding environments.
On August 17, 2017, astronomers detected the merger of two neutron stars, producing gravitational waves and an electromagnetic flash for the first time.
Gravitational wave astronomers announced a moderately confident detection of ripples in space-time, believed to fill the cosmos, using a pulsar timing array.
