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Milky Way’s second-largest black hole?
Astronomers are calling it a possible first detection of an intermediate-mass black hole, a missing link in black hole evolution.
January 20, 2016
View from space: Mississippi River flooding
Two satellite images show the contrast between the flooded Mississippi River this month and the same area last year. Check out the difference!
January 20, 2016
EarthSky News with Deborah Byrd
All the news you can fit into outer space LIVE on Slooh.com Mondays and Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. ET (1530 UTC). Or watch right here!
January 18, 2016
Record-shattering super supernova
The supernova was as bright as 570 billion of our suns and some 20 times as luminous as the entire output of the 100 billion stars of our Milky Way galaxy.
January 18, 2016
Extreme weather lowers global crop yield
Researchers found that extreme heat and drought between 1964 and 2007 account for about a 10% decline in global cereal crop production.
January 18, 2016
Newly discovered most luminous galaxy
Galaxy W2246-0526 shines with the intensity of more than 300 trillion suns. Its central black hole stirs up gas across the entire galaxy.
January 18, 2016
SpaceX deploys satellite, crashes rocket
A foggy lift-off - successful deployment of Jason 3 satellite - and spectacular crash at attempted sea landing for SpaceX yesterday. Spectacular video of crash, here.
January 18, 2016
Follow a live planet hunt at Proxima Centauri
ESO invites you to follow its Pale Red Dot campaign, the hunt for an Earth-like exoplanet orbiting the next-nearest star.
January 16, 2016
Newest image of possible Pluto ice volcano
Check out this highest-resolution color view of a possible cryovolcano spotted on the surface of Pluto by the New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015
January 15, 2016
NASA says yes to Dream Chaser
As early as 2019, Dream Chaser become the first winged vehicle to fly into orbit since NASA retired the space shuttles in 2011.
January 15, 2016
