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A bright concentration of stars on a dark sky.

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The nearest middle-aged black hole could be a crowd of lightweights

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The study doesn’t completely rule out an intermediate-mass black hole, but if one is there, it’s much smaller than […]

A piece of paper with strings of numbers and letters printed on it, with one line circled in red pen and "Wow!" written in that same pen in the margin

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History ‘Wow!’ the signal may finally have a source. Sorry, they are not strangers

Extreme Climate Survey Scientific news is collecting questions from readers about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can lead to extreme weather events? The original “Wow!” the signal was detected decades ago by the Big Ear radio telescope at Ohio State University. […]

Gas and dust swirl, and stars twinkle, in an image of a stellar nursery. Some of the starlike objects captured in this image are baby planets, researchers say.

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The Webb Telescope’s look at a stellar nursery also finds minor planets

A distant stellar nursery holds a cluster of newborn worlds the size of Jupiter, the smallest of which is surrounded by a disk of dust that may one day form moons. The detailed discovery, made thanks to the unprecedented sensitivity of the James Webb Space Telescope, could provide new insights into the formation of stars […]