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Astronomers discover a galaxy-wide wobbling black hole jet

Rare, powerful jet strips star-forming gas from its host, offering new insight into how galaxies evolve.

Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star

The famous Wolf-Rayet 104 “pinwheel star” reveals a surprise

A new spin on decades of W. M. Keck Observatory research.

oxygen aurora on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede

New Aurorae detected on Jupiter’s four largest moons

The team detected aurorae at visible wavelengths.

Orion Bar

Astronomers captured the most detailed images of the radiation region in Orionʻs’ sword’

Massive stars’ blasts hitting Orion's “sword” mapped in unprecedented detail using the Hawaiʻi telescope.

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