Using the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab, and the Magellan Baade Telescope, astronomers have for the first time observed…
Category: 2. Space
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The Milky Way’s black hole is constantly bubbling
The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show.
Astronomers used the James Webb Space…
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Beyond our solar system: scientists identify a new exoplanet candidate
Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet — a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system — using a technique known as ‘transit timing variation’.
In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The…
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How Long-Lasting Disks Might Affect Life Beyond Our Solar System
What can the protoplanetary disk’s lifetime teach us about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international team of…
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NASA’s Hubble finds Kuiper Belt duo may be trio
The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and television show “3 Body Problem.” There’s no problem, however, with…
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From Clouds to Chemistry: Decoding the Atmosphere of SIMP 0136 with Webb
What can the atmosphere of a free-floating exoplanet teach astronomers about exoplanet formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an…
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The universe’s first supernovas probably produced water
The first generation of stars in the universe could have produced significant amounts of water upon their deaths, just 100 million to 200 million years after the Big Bang.
Signatures of water have previously been observed some 780…
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A private mission to Venus aims to look for signs of life
BOSTON —Droplets of Venus’ clouds may someday come to Earth. Researchers are testing a device that can gather mist from our planetary neighbor’s atmosphere and deliver it to scientists so they can test the samples for signs of…
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How do the universe’s highest-energy particles originate? Magnetic outflows stemming from star mergers, analysis concludes
Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays are the highest-energy particles in the universe, whose energies are more than a million times what can be achieved by humans. But while the existence of UHECRs has been known for 60 years, researchers have not…
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Some of Earth’s meteors are probably coming all the way from a neighboring star system
Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to the sun, is probably shedding comets and asteroids into our solar system — and even producing a few meteors in our sky.
Located just 4.3 light-years from Earth, Alpha Centauri consists of…
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