astronomy
Webb Space Telescope Cracks Case of Puffy “Microwaved Marshmallow” Exoplanet
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The warm gas giant WASP-107 b, known for its unusually low density and moderate temperature, may have its puffed-up atmosphere due to ...
Northern lights colors explained
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If you’ve looked at social media feeds in the past week, they’ve likely been jammed with bedazzling photos of the aurora borealis ...
Blue fireball lights up European skies as meteor streaks by
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A blue meteor lit up the sky over Europe on Saturday night as a chunk of comet burned up in the atmosphere. ...
Hubble Captures the Birth of a Sun-like Star
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This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures a triple-star star system. Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Duchene (Universite de Grenoble I); Image Processing: ...
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 ...
