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Telescope spies the fastest star in the Milky Way zipping around a black hole
3+ week, 3+ day ago (255+ words) The star is zipping around the black hole, reaching speeds of about 15,534 miles per second (25,000 kilometers per second). That’s 100,000 times faster than a commercial plane. “That star is really, extremely fast,” said astronomer Stefan Gillessen with the Max Planck Institute…...
The Hubble is our window into the universe. We can???t afford to close it.
4+ week, 17+ hour ago (336+ words) Susan Rigetti is author of three books and a former editor at The New York Times and Slate. She is a contributing Globe Opinion writer. The future of the Hubble Space Telescope is uncertain. The telescope orbits Earth at an…...