Astronomers have just solved a long-standing mystery about a rare, rapidly spinning neutron star known as PSR J1023+0038. Using NASA’s IXPE telescope and a fleet of observatories, scientists discovered that the system’s intense X-rays don’t…
Category: 2. Space
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NASA Just Discovered Where These Mysterious Space X-Rays Really Come From
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Mysterious Object Orbits the Sun Once for Every 10 Neptune Orbits—But Why?
Astronomers have discovered a mysterious object far beyond Neptune that orbits the Sun once for every ten Neptune orbits—an arrangement never seen before. Known as 2020 VN40, the object’s orbit is dramatically tilted, and yet it remains…
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‘Ammonite’: A Mysterious Deep Space Fossil That Could Rewrite Solar System History
A mysterious icy object discovered far beyond Pluto is rewriting what we thought we knew about the Solar System’s past. Nicknamed “Ammonite,” this ancient world has an orbit unlike any other, placing it in the ultra-rare class of…
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A strange fossil at the edge of the solar system just shook up Planet Nine theories
Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer Solar System.
The object was found as part of the survey project FOSSIL (Formation of…
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Mysterious object found dancing with Neptune
A team of astronomers led by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian has discovered a rare object far beyond Neptune, from a class known as trans-Neptunian objects, that is moving in rhythm with the giant planet. This object, called…
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Astronomers just witnessed planets being born around a baby star 1300 light-years away
International researchers have, for the first time, pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the Sun. Using the ALMA telescope, in which the European Southern Observatory (ESO) is a partner, and the James Webb Space…
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NASA’s IXPE tracked a rare pulsar—and found an unexpected power source
An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) and…
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