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After termination of operation on October 23, NASA’s 22-year-old Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere around November 4.
Launched in November 2004, the 3,200-pound spacecraft transformed our...
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A $30 million rescue effort has come to an end, dooming NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Telescope to a fiery atmospheric reentry later this year. The observatory had previously suffered major attitude control malfunctions and went into an...
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Way in the outskirts of a galaxy 750 million light-years away, astronomers have caught an unlucky star being torn apart by a rogue supermassive black hole that has drifted more than 30,000 light-years from its host galaxy’s...
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