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Listen to the Andromeda galaxy's stars played as musical notes in eerie NASA video
By Patrick Pester published
NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, and then created a music video by converting the light in those images to musical notes.

How to see the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory on Monday
By Perri Thaler last updated
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory shared a "sneak peak" of its first highly-detailed space images this morning, with the full debut of all its new images coming at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday.

'A bundle of microscopic tornadoes' may be building the cosmic web
By Andrey Feldman published
When invisible dark matter spins, it may form clumps of "vortexes" that stretch across space, forming the cosmic web that links all galaxies, new research proposes.

Mysterious deep-space radio signals reveal location of the universe's 'missing matter'
By Skyler Ware published
Much of the universe's regular "baryonic" matter is spread through intergalactic space and in diffuse halos around galaxies, researchers proposed after studying the behavior of fast radio bursts emitted from deep space.

Facing steep funding cuts, scientists propose using black holes as particle colliders
By Ben Turner published
New calculations have revealed that the super-energetic jets produced by spinning black holes could be a source for elusive dark matter particles.

'Neutron lifetime puzzle' may have a new solution
By Andrey Feldman published
A type of hydrogen that doesn't interact with light could explain how long neutrons live and reveal the identity of the universe's dark matter, according to a new theory.

Ghostly galaxy without dark matter baffles astronomers
By Sharmila Kuthunur published
Astronomers have stumbled upon yet another ghostly galaxy that appears to be devoid of dark matter, the elusive stuff that makes up most of the material universe.

The universe's 'missing matter' may have finally been found
By Joanna Thompson published
About half of the non-dark matter in the universe cannot be accounted for by stars and galaxies alone. Now, scientists say previously undetected clouds of hydrogen gas could finally reveal it.
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