Astronomers have detected a gamma-ray burst (GRB) like none other. GRB 250702B was longer than any ever observed and repeated. The GRB was "unlike anything ever witnessed before," according to the ...

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Astronomers using the MeerKAT telescope discovered a hydroxyl megamaser in a galactic merger 8 billion light-years away, amplified by gravitational lensing and operating at radio wavelengths.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

Despite sounding like something out of pulpy '50s sci-fi, 'space lasers' are real – and astrophysicists have now spotted the ...

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MeerKAT telescope discovers most powerful space laser ever found, detecting a hydroxyl gigamaser 8 billion light-years away using gravitational lensing.

The researchers said that the "hydroxyl gigamaser" was generated by the merger of two galaxies some 8 billion light-years away.

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It's been about eight months since the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) saw first light. Now the telescope is scanning the night sky to detect transient changes and sending alerts to astronomers and ...

You know that feeling when you find something hiding right where you've been looking all along? Astronomers just had that moment on a cosmic scale. A galaxy so faint, so nearly invisible that no one ...