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Porphyrion: The Longest Known Black Hole Jets

By |2024-10-01T09:09:08-04:00October 1st, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How far can black hole jets extend? A new record was found just recently with the discovery of a 23-million light-year long jet pair from a black hole active billions of years ago. Dubbed Porphyrion for a mythological Greek giant, the impressive jets were created by a type of black [...]

Stellar Streams in the Local Universe

By |2024-09-27T09:09:17-04:00September 27th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day The twenty galaxies arrayed in these panels are part of an ambitious astronomical survey of tidal stellar streams. Each panel presents a composite view; a deep, inverted image taken from publicly available imaging surveys of a field that surrounds a nearby massive galaxy image. The inverted images reveal faint cosmic [...]

SWE Diverse Podcast Ep 280: Engaging Youth STEM Voters With Jennifer McAndrew of Tufts University

By |2024-09-26T12:47:00-04:00September 26th, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Explore how to boost voting turnout and civic participation among STEM students in this episode of Diverse: a SWE podcast!

The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

By |2024-09-26T09:09:07-04:00September 26th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day In 1716, English astronomer Edmond Halley noted, "This is but a little Patch, but it shows itself to the naked Eye, when the Sky is serene and the Moon absent." Of course, M13 is now less modestly recognized as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, one of the brightest globular [...]

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