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The Voyager Golden Records are two identical phonograph records which were included aboard the two Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. [1] The records contain sounds and data to reconstruct raster scan images selected to portray the diversity of life and culture on Earth, and are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form who may find them.
Black Holes: Gravity's Relentless Pull Award-winning interactive multimedia Web site about the physics and astronomy of black holes from the Space Telescope Science Institute; Audio: Fraser Cain/Pamela L. Gay – Astronomy Cast. Quasars – July 2008; Merrifield, Michael; Copland, Ed. "z~1.3 – An implausibly large structure [in the Universe]".
Pictures could also help tell some of the universe’s biggest secrets
This video clip shows a visualization of the three-dimensional structure of the Pillars of Creation. Closer view of one pillar. Pillars of Creation is a photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, in the Serpens constellation, some 6,500–7,000 light-years (2,000–2,100 pc; 61–66 Em) from Earth. [1]
The Chandra X-ray Observatory marked its 25th anniversary with a release of never-before-seen images. But budget cuts may cause the observatory’s days to be numbered.
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The estimates of the mass of IC 1101's black hole are near the upper bound of cosmological limits, [26] and is referred to as an "overmassive" black hole. [5] IC 1101's mass-to-light ratio has been described as being anomalously high. The galaxy also has a unique velocity dispersion profile, which indicates a massive dark matter halo. It ...
It has been a groundbreaking year for astronomy with Wednesday marking the one-year anniversary of the first color images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). During this time, the ...