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NASA’s Rome Telescope will illuminate the cosmic dawn

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This artist’s concept shows what the universe might have looked like when it was less than a billion years old, about 7 percent of its current age. Star formation voraciously consumed the primordial hydrogen, churning out multitudes of stars at an unprecedented rate. NASA’s Roman Nancy Grace Space Telescope will look back at the early … Read more

We may finally know what caused the biggest cosmic explosion ever seen

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Two neutron stars begin to merge in this artist

Massive stars that collapse or collide create gamma-ray bursts NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/ A. Simonnet, Sonoma State University The most powerful explosion astronomers have ever seen contains a mysterious signal that is thought to be impossible to exist. This signal gives us our first detailed look inside a gamma-ray burst and suggests that they … Read more