Star explosion is most distant space object seen
Light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago has been detected, becoming the most distant object in the universe ever observed.Full story
First black holes starved at birth
Space.com: The first black holes in the universe were born starving. A new study found that the earliest black holes lacked nearby matter to gobble up, and so lay relatively stagnant in pockets of emptiness. Full story
Spacecraft is coldest object out in space
The coldest known object out in space isn't a frozen comet or some distant, chilly gas cloud. It's a spacecraft: the Planck probe, designed to study the faint afterglow of the big bang. Full story
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