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How Do We Know Supermassive Black Holes Are Out There?

Nova Vul 1670 as seen by the Gemini, SMA and APEX instruments. Credit: ESO/T. Kamiński, CC BY-SA 3.0

Found: First Evidence of Radioactive Molecules Outside the Solar System

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Digging Through Long-Archived Data for the Next Big Discovery in Astronomy

An artist's impression of the universe's first stars, embedded in a sea of gas, with the cosmic microwave background radiation depicted along the edges. Credit: N.R. Fuller, National Science Foundation

Ancient Starlight Trapped in Cosmic Gas Offers Clues About Universe’s Firstborn Suns

The centre of the Milky Way galaxy looms over the La Silla Observatory, Chile. Credit: esoastronomy/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

What Does the Milky Way Look Like? Astronomers Use High-School Math to Find Out

In Lighting Up Our World, We Are Losing Sight of Others