astronomy
MIT Researchers Discover the Universe’s Oldest Stars
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MIT astronomers discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they live in our own galactic neighborhood. The stars are ...
Webb Finds Atmosphere on Rocky Exoplanet For the First Time
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Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, scientists may have identified atmospheric gases on 55 Cancri e, a super-hot, rocky exoplanet. This discovery ...
See The Jaw-Dropping New Video Of The Sun By A Spacecraft Almost There
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ESA’s Sun-explorer Solar Orbiter ESA/Medialab The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back the first video of the sun from just two-thirds of ...
Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower, Red Giant Star Antares, and May Planets
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The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower is an annual celestial event that occurs from late April to mid-May, peaking around May 5th and ...
Webb Maps Weather on Extreme Exoplanet WASP-43 b
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This artist’s concept shows what the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b could look like. WASP-43 b is a Jupiter-sized planet circling a ...
NASA Develops Tiny Yet Mighty 36-Pixel Sensor
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“Supernova remnant N132D lies in the central portion of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy about 160,000 light-years away. XRISM’s Xtend ...
The Night Sky This Week
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The Eta Aquariids meteor shower—caused by Halley’s comet—peaks this week in dark, moonless night … [+] skies. getty Each Monday, I pick ...
Unprecedented Find in Meteorite Challenges Astrophysical Models
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Researchers have discovered a rare dust particle in a meteorite, formed by a star other than our sun. Using advanced atom probe ...
Hubble Celebrates 34th Anniversary With a Spectacular View of the Little Dumbbell Nebula
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Astronomers celebrated the 34th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope by capturing an image of the Little Dumbbell Nebula, 3400 light-years away. ...
NASA’s Fermi Sees No Gamma Rays From Nearby Supernova
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The 2023 observation of supernova SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel galaxy provided a unique chance to study cosmic ray production, but the ...
World
The radical new Dutch government is the canary in the EU coal mine