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Astronomers have discovered the brightest object ever observed in the universe. Using the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers identified a quasar ...

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Tom Bickle, an astronomy student in Southampton, discovered a hypervelocity object moving at a million miles per hour. The object, possibly a low-mass star or brown dwarf, could escape the Milky Way.

A UK astronomy student, Tom Bickle, discovered a hypervelocity object hurtling through space at one million miles per hour. Classified as either a low-mass star or brown dwarf, this object may ...

and is the first object of its mass to be observed at such speeds. Backyard Worlds is a citizen science project where citizens can help search for brown dwarfs or a large planet at the fringes of ...

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