PanSTARRS

This new composite image, created using X-rays from the Chandra Space Telescope (blue and purple), radio data from the MeerKAT radio telescope (orange and yellow), and an optical image from PanSTARRS (red, green, and blue), shows PLCK G287.0+32.9. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/CfA/K. Rajpurohit et al.; Optical: PanSTARRS; Radio: SARAO/MeerKAT; Image processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk

Invisible storm illuminates galaxy cluster with record-breaking radio emission

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Astronomers have encountered the largest-ever cloud of energetic particles around a galaxy cluster, rewriting what we thought we knew about how particles stay charged.
This artist's impression shows the Tianwen-2 probe approaching the near-Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. Credit: CCTV

China launches Tianwen-2 – asteroid sample return mission

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If successful, it would be the third time in history that samples from an asteroid have reached Earth, and the third country after Japan and the United States.
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