Tag: astronomy
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Nicole Oliveira Becomes The Youngest Astronomer
Nicole Oliveira, an 8-year-old from Fortaleza, Brazil, has been named the world’s youngest astronomer. Nicole has joined the NASA-affiliated program and started searching for asteroids. She has so far traced 18 asteroids, a project NASA has dubbed the Asteroid Hunters, aimed at introducing young people to science by helping them make discoveries in the universe.…
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Postcard from the edge… of a supermassive black hole
Paris, (24th March, 2021, 08:10 pm) (AFP/APP):The astronomers who gave the world its first true glimpse of a black hole have produced another landmark image, this time capturing the polarised light swirling around the same star-eating monster’s magnetic fields. But it is more than just a pretty picture. Never before has it been possible…