The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful telescope astronomers have at their disposal, but that’s not just because it’s got a big mirror (which it does). Webb’s instruments can see far into the infrared, allowing the observatory to see through clouds of dust and gas to observe the …
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When the news of Yahoo’s massive hack began to break last year — we can forgive you if you don’t remember which one that is, since there’ve been so many — the company attempted to perform damage control by claiming this was the work of foreign operatives. These claims were …
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The universe is a big place, and we know from targeted observations that there are a lot of black holes out there. These collapsed husks of dead stars have such intense gravity that nothing escapes them, not even light. That makes it tricky to actually observe them, but NASA’s Chandra …
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