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James Webb Telescope Captures Mysterious Flares Near the Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole
Scientists have observed strange activity in Sagittarius A* (Sgr A), the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Sgr A, located about 26,000 light-years from Earth and weighing four million times the mass of the Sun, constantly emits mysterious flares that are not yet…
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NASA Raises Alarm, 3.1% Chance of Asteroid 2024 YR4 Hitting Earth
After a week of bright skies due to the full moon, astronomers can finally observe asteroid 2024 YR4 again. With darker skies, ground-based telescopes have a better chance of spotting these faint space rocks that are usually hard to detect. NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California has…