Whether it’s rivers cutting through earth, lava melting through rock, or water slicing through ice, channels all twist and bend in a seemingly similar back-and-forth manner. But a new study led by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin…
Category: 2. Space
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Satellite image analysis delivers new insight into the functional diversity of tropical forests
Satellite images from space are allowing scientists to delve deeper into the individual functions of different tropical forest canopies with new and surprising results.
Understanding tree traits and functional diversity in the tropics is crucial…
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Ultra-hot nova observed erupting: Surprising chemical signature
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…
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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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