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A meteor shower is visible in the sky in November, and the show can be spectacular
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New high-res black hole images challenge Einstein’s theory of relativity
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This black hole released energy equivalent to 10,000 billion suns
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An extremely luminous flare recorded from a supermassive black hole
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Greatest Spectroscope Ever Built Can Tell What 2,400 Cosmic Objects Are Made of Every 20 Mins.
ESO’s 4MOST instrument – Credit, AIPA / Saviauk The world’s largest spectroscopic telescope has just recorded the first…