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Celestron TrailSeeker: Best Binoculars Under $300

The Celestron TrailSeeker 8x42mm binoculars are one of the best binoculars on the market. They hold the title as best binoculars under $300 in our binoculars buying guide, and represent tremendous value for money. For anyone looking to begin their own stargazing journey, these binoculars deliver incredible details of the night sky. It’s already great value for money but that’s now made…
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Small black holes are surprisingly messy eaters, Japanese spacecraft discovers: 'Being surprised is good'

Small black holes making a meal out of companion stars are surprisingly messy eaters, astronomers using a Japanese space telescope have discovered. Scientists have known for some time that when supermassive black holes — those with masses millions or billions of times that of the sun — devour matter, such as surrounding gas and dust or even an unfortunate passing star, most of that material…
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Does the nearby exoplanet TRAPPIST-1e support life? New James Webb Space Telescope data could help us find out

Astronomers have investigated the atmosphere and potential habitability of a famous “Goldilocks zone” planet using NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The planet in question is TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized rocky exoplanet that’s located around 40 light-years away from our planet. TRAPPIST-1e is the fourth planet in orbit around a red dwarf star called…
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Triple star system burns bright in new image from the James Webb Space Telescope

It’s a scene that could evoke popular fantasy stories, with sparkling stars shining above misty mountaintops, but the James Webb Space Telescope image you see above is of a very real part of our universe. It shows peaks jutting up from a vast nebula that sits about 5,500 light-years away from our planet. The nebula is NGC 6357, which is also known as the Lobster Nebula in the constellation…
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