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Supermassive serial killers: Astronomers discover how black holes 'kill off' neighboring galaxies

Space 20 Feb 2026
Scientists have discovered that active supermassive black holes don't just kill their home galaxies, but can also eradicate star formation for their neighbors ....
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Astronomers Discover Galaxy Made of 99% Dark Matter

Colombia One 20 Feb 2026
Astronomers have identified one of the strangest galaxies ever recorded — a faint system made up almost entirely of dark matter ... Yet it makes up most of the universe’s mass ... Astronomers detect dark matter by studying how gravity shapes the universe ... .
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Astronomers Discover Galaxy Made Almost Entirely of Dark Matter

Greek Reporter 20 Feb 2026
Astronomers have identified what may be one of the most extreme galaxies ever observed — a system made up almost entirely of dark matter ... How astronomers detect the invisible.
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6 planets to align for ‘planet parade.’ How to see rare astronomical event

Palm Beach Daily News 20 Feb 2026
In practice, seeing more than three planets will likely be a challenge.” ... 28 ... Venus became visible on Feb ... "The term 'planetary alignment' isn't a scientific one, but a catch-all colloquial phrase that can refer to multiple astronomical events ...
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How citizens helped NASA discover ‘Steve’ and other astronomical wonders

The News Tribune 19 Feb 2026
Learn about a global citizen science project that crowdsources real-time aurora sightings ... .
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The Kuiper Belt is packed with weird peanut-shaped objects. Astronomers think they know why

Scientific American 19 Feb 2026
A study published today helps explain how “planetesimals”—the building blocks of planets—came to be ... .
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Astronomers Get to the Heart of Mira A's Latest Outburst

Universe Today 18 Feb 2026
A team of astronomers led by Theo Khouri, Chalmers University in Sweden discovered two large clouds of material expanding ...
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Astronomers may have just found one of the missing links in galaxy evolution

Phys Dot Org 17 Feb 2026
A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a ...
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The Power To Do Awe-Inspiring Astronomical Discoveries (The University of Toledo)

Public Technologies 17 Feb 2026
) The Power To Do Awe-Inspiring Astronomical Discoveries ... Eli Visbal, an associate professor and theoretical astronomer, led new research proposing the first ...
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What are JWST’s Little Red Dots? Astronomers may finally have an answer

Scientific American 17 Feb 2026
Astronomers are racing to understand mysterious ancient objects that pepper James Webb Space Telescope images ... .
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Astronomer reveals why a cruise ship in March is the perfect way to see the ...

The Daily Mail 17 Feb 2026
Viking's resident astronomer, Howard Parkin MBE, is hoping for 'another dramatic outburst of auroral displays' during the sun's declining phase of its cycle ....
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Student astronomers navigate the night sky

The Post-Star 17 Feb 2026
Students learned about some of the constellations and recreated the aurora borealis ... .
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Indian astronomer records rare event as a Sun collapses into black hole

India Today 16 Feb 2026
Indian astronomer records rare event as a Sun collapses into black hole ... .
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