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NASA Telescope Data Becomes Music You Can Play

A new collaboration is enabling actual data from NASA telescopes to be used as the basis for original music that humans can play.

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NASA's Chandra Catches Spider Pulsars Destroying Nearby Stars

A group of dead stars known as "spider pulsars" are obliterating companion stars within their reach.

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Sprightly Stars Illuminate 'Christmas Tree Cluster'

This new image of NGC 2264, also known as the "Christmas Tree Cluster," shows the shape of a cosmic tree with the glow of stellar lights.

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NASA Telescopes Start the Year With a Double Bang

A colorful, festive image shows different types of light containing the remains of not one, but at least two, exploded stars.

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NASA Telescopes Chase Down "Green Monster" in Star's Debris

Astronomers have combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and James Webb Space Telescope to study the well-known supernova remnant Cassiopeia A.

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Astronomers Find Spark of Star Birth Across Billions of Years

These four images represent a sample of galaxy clusters that are part of the largest and most complete study to learn what triggers stars to form in the universe's biggest galaxies.

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NASA's IXPE Helps Researchers Maximize 'Microquasar' Findings

This composite image of the Manatee Nebula captures the jet emanating from SS 433, a black hole pulling material inwards that is embedded in the supernova remnant which spawned it.

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Telescopes Show the Milky Way's Black Hole is Ready for a Kick

The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is spinning so quickly it is warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that looks like an American football.

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Black Hole Fashions Stellar Beads on a String

Astronomers have discovered one of the most powerful eruptions from a black hole ever recorded. This mega-explosion may help explain the formation of a striking pattern of star clusters around two...

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Listen to the Universe: New NASA Sonifications and Documentary

Three new sonifications of images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have been released in conjunction with a new documentary about the project that makes its debut on the NASA+...

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