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Astronomers Spot Light From Behind a Black Hole for the First Time – Proving Einstein Right Again
When doing astronomy, you can't blink, because the difference between a never-before-seen phenomenon, and just a regular day at the telescope can be as...
Revolutionary Instrument Delivers a Sharper Universe to Astronomers
Seven ultrasharp images of space released last week by the Gemini South Observatory in Chile reveal the remarkable potential of a new instrument that...
The Violent History and Fiery Birth of the ‘Dragon’s Egg Nebula’ Solves Stellar Mystery
Astronomers studying the origins of a strange and mysterious nebula deduced a turbulent history that shows how massive stars can become magnetized that otherwise...
Mysterious Rainbow-like ‘Glory Lights’ Observed on Planet Outside Our Solar System for First Time Ever
Astronomers have detected signs of the rainbow-like ‘glory’ effect on a planet outside our solar system for the first time.
Spotted on a planet that...
Scientists Reveal Incredible Image of Magnetic Fields Spiraling from Supermassive Black Hole
As part of humanity's continued attempts to image a black hole, a telescope array recently captured the swirling magnetic fields around two of the...
Good News in History, March 22
54 years ago today, native Mexican or "Chicino" residents in San Diego, California occupy a site under the Coronado Bridge, leading to the creation...
Good News in History, March 13
On this day last year, worldwide unit sales of vinyl records climbed above CDs for the first time since 1987, completing the only low-tech...
Good News in History, February 26
2,771 years ago today, the Neo Babylonian king Nabonassar assumed the throne of the great city, which isn't necessarily good news in itself, but...
Good News in History, February 24
188 years ago today, one of the foremost painters of 19th-century America, Winslow Homer, was born. Born in Boston to a father always seeking...
Scientists Spot the Brightest Object Ever–500 Trillion Times More Luminous Than the Sun
Quasars are the bright cores of distant galaxies powered by supermassive black holes, and 12 billion light years away, one has been found that...
Good News in History, February 13
This daily column at GNN.org features all the good news, anniversaries and notable birthdays from this day in history—February 13.
Newly Released NASA Collection of Spiral Galaxies May Leave Viewers ‘Mesmerized’
These jaw-dropping pictures of 13 different spiral galaxies were released in a bundle by NASA, and are the result of the space agency's work...
Scientists Spot Mysterious Aurora on Distant Celestial Object
Everyone who's given five seconds to look into it knows that the Aurora Borealis is cause by charged particles from the Sun interacting with...
Good News in History, January 9
Happy 80th Birthday to Jimmy Page, the brilliant guitarist, songwriter, and producer whose groundbreaking band Led Zeppelin released its first album 51 years ago...
Good News in History, December 30
133 years ago today, the American author, recordist, and expatriate Paul Bowles, was born. Living in Tangier, Morocco for 47 years, Bowles would publish...
First-time Ever, Scientists Find Planet Almost as Big as its Host Star: ‘How little we know about the universe’
Far out in the galaxy, astronomers at Penn State have found a planet that is just a little bit smaller than its host star,...
See the Stunning New Image of Uranus – Showing Rings and its Moons Clearer Than Ever
Among all the things that the James Webb Space Telescope has taught us, one of the most surprising for the layman has probably been...
Locked in a 4 Billion-Year-old Dance, Six New Exoplanets Demonstrate the Cosmic Beauty of ‘Resonant Orbits’
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Scientists have discovered 6 exoplanets orbiting...
NASA Turns Light into Sound Frequency Creating a Milky Way Symphony (LISTEN)
A collaboration between NASA and musicians has seen a photograph of the Milky Way from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory turned into a musical piece...
Amateur Astronomer Saw Never Before Seen Collision Event in Data Where the Professionals Didn’t
A chance social media post by an eagle-eyed amateur astronomer sparked the discovery of an explosive collision between two giant planets, which crashed into...