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Trump Erases Vera Rubin History? Scientists Speak Out
Astronomers worldwide are in an uproar after the Rubin Observatory altered Vera Rubin’s biography on its official website. The changes removed sections highlighting her fight for women in science and the observatory’s efforts to promote diversity in astronomy. Why did this happen? It’s all connected to a policy from former U.S. President Donald Trump. His…
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Quipu: The Largest Structure in the Universe Ever Found
Astronomers have just discovered the largest known structure in the universe! Named Quipu, this massive structure stretches across 1.4 billion light-years. What’s inside? Nearly 70 superclusters of galaxies, with a total mass hundreds of thousands of times larger than the Milky Way. What is Quipu? Imagine Quipu as a giant cosmic highway network, where galaxies…
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Starship Explosion Scatters Space Junk in the Caribbean, Locals Forced to Clean Up
Turks and Caicos – Last month, SpaceX’s Starship test flight ended in a spectacular explosion over the Caribbean. But while it looked like a scene straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, the reality for the people of Turks and Caicos has been far from glamorous: they’ve been left picking up chunks of the rocket that…
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Scientists Discover the Longest Black Hole Jet in the Early Universe
Astronomers have just found something amazing in the early universe: a gigantic jet shot out by a black hole, and it’s twice as long as our Milky Way galaxy! This jet stretches an incredible 200,000 light-years, even though it comes from a black hole that isn’t actually that big for a quasar. A Super-Long Jet…
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Has a Higher Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032
Astronomers just updated the odds of asteroid 2024 YR4 colliding with Earth in 2032, and the chances have gone up from 1.3% to 2.3%. But don’t worry—scientists are still optimistic that the risk will drop as they gather more data. This asteroid is pretty big, about 90 meters wide—around the same size as the one…