Astrophysics
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 ...
NASA’s Quest to Touch the Sun
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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Our sun is the best-observed star in the entire universe. We see ...
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 ...
Turning Invisible Dark Matter Into Visible Light
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Galaxy cluster, left, with ring of dark matter visible, right. Credit: NASA, ESA, M. J. Jee and H. Ford (Johns Hopkins University) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Insights From JWST’s Discovery of an Einstein-Ringed Galaxy
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JWST discovered the ancient galaxy JWST-ER1g, featuring a unique Einstein ring that aids in studying the galaxy’s high dark matter density and ...
JWST Witnesses the Dawn of Starlight
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By ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3D (ASTRO 3D) April 11, 2024 JWST shows details of a massive ...
Zombie Stars at the Milky Way’s Core Defy Time
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Northwestern University’s new research using simulations of 1,000 stars around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, reveals that high-speed stellar ...
