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The Violent Birth of a Magnetar
Season 3 Episode 440
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has captured the first definitive evidence of high-energy gamma rays coming from a superluminous supernova — o…
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The Giant Telescope Designed to Reveal the Hidden Universe
Season 3 Episode 439
The proposed Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope, known as AtLAST, aims to uncover hidden regions of the universe that current observatori…
1 month ago
The Surprising Link Between Asteroids and Evolution
Season 3 Episode 438
Researchers studying microbial fossils inside South Korea’s Hapcheon impact crater have uncovered evidence that asteroid collisions may have helped e…
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The Moon Could Become a Giant Space Laboratory
Season 3 Episode 437
Physicists are proposing the use of permanently shadowed craters near the Moon’s south pole to host ultrastable lasers and precision optical instrume…
1 month ago
The Space Observatory That Could Explain Dark Energy
Season 3 Episode 436
NASA is preparing for the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a next-generation observatory scheduled for September 2026.
Equipped with a…
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How Supernova Dust Changed the Early Universe
Season 3 Episode 435
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that many early galaxies are far brighter in ultraviolet light than expected.
Scientist…
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The Black Hole That Switched Back On
Season 3 Episode 434
Astronomers using the eROSITA telescope have observed a rare “changing-look” active galaxy over a billion light-years away.
The galaxy HE 1237−2252 dr…
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The Future of Humanity May Exist Inside Giant Space Cylinders
Season 3 Episode 433
Rotating space habitats known as O’Neill Cylinders propose a radical alternative to colonizing hostile planets like Mars or the Moon.
By using rotatio…
1 month, 1 week ago
Scientists Created a New Way to Detect Alien Life
Season 3 Episode 432
Researchers have developed a new statistical technique capable of detecting extraterrestrial life by analyzing the organizational patterns of molecul…
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James Webb May Have Found One of the Universe’s First Galaxies
Season 3 Episode 431
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered LAP1-B, one of the most chemically primitive galaxies ever observed, appearing just 800 …
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