Astronomers have discovered signs of complex organic molecules, considered precursors to sugars and amino acids, within a planet-forming disc. Using the powerful Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a research team led by Abubakar…
Category: 2. Space
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Astronomers Discover Seeds of Life in Young Star’s Planet-Forming Disc
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The Webb space telescope spies its first black holes snacking on stars
These star-shredding black holes sit within dusty galaxies that block many telescopes’ views. That’s not an issue for JWST.
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It Shouldn’t Exist: Astronomers Discover a Planet Orbiting the “Wrong Way”
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of a rare, retrograde-orbiting planet in a tight binary star system. Most stars throughout the Universe are part of binary or multiple star systems. In these systems, a nearby companion star can make it…
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Long-lived Mantle Plume Tracing The Onset And Spreading Of The Proto-Tethys Ocean
Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
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It’s time to unlock inland orbital launch for a resilient U.S. space future
As space operations grow in the United States, we face a bottleneck: the limited capacity of coastal spaceports. While Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg remain effective for the nation, these launch sites are becoming congested, and their…
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Senators raise NASA funding concerns in letter to Duffy
WASHINGTON — Several senators are demanding details from NASA on claims that the agency is withholding funding already appropriated for the current fiscal year and plans to enact proposed cuts in the next fiscal year.
To continue…
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Hubble Surveys Supernova-Rich Spiral – NASA Science
Rich with detail, the spiral galaxy NGC 1309 shines in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. NGC 1309 is about 100 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
This stunning Hubble image encompasses NGC 1309’s bluish…
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