Could One of the Closest Stars to Our Sun Have a Planet Like Earth?
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We can find our Solar System’s nearest neighboring stars at a distance of just over four light-years away; Proxima Centauri….
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Merging Multimillion-Degree X-ray Spots Observed In Deep Space
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Astronomers using the NICER X-ray monitor recorded the movement and merging of X-ray spots on a magnetar in a state…
Scientists Find Further Evidence That Life May Have Been “Seeded” On Earth
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Planetary scientists working with soil samples from the asteroid Ryugu, delivered to Earth by the Hayabusa2 interplanetary station, have published…
Researchers Come Across Surprising Discovery at our Galaxy’s Central Core
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Astronomers have determined the age of the Fermi bubbles – giant structures observed in the central zone of the Milky…
Massive Stellar Dust Cloud Sheds Light on Building Blocks of Life on Planets
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Studying planet formation Observing what lies within a circumstellar disc is critical to discovering important insights into the formation of…
“Cosmic Sonic Boom” in Deep Space is First-Ever Detected by Experts
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Astronomers saw how the kilonova explosion, initiated by the merger of two neutron stars, increased in brightness several years after…
Vampire Binary Star System Near Earth Camouflages as Black Hole
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Close binary systems Most massive OB-type main sequence stars are in binary or multiple systems, among which close binary systems…
Dwarf Planet Ceres is Home to Elements Necessary for Life
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Planetologists presented the results of studies of the third-largest impact crater Urvara on the dwarf planet Ceres. The results of…
Unexpected Discovery In Deep Space Reveals Black Hole Spinning Sideways
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Astronomers discovered a unique spinning black hole. For the first time, they measured with great precision the angle between the…
Here’s James Webb’s First Fully Stacked Photo of a Star
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James Webb’s main mirror The main mirror of the James Webb, consisting of 18 segments, has an area of 25…
Astronomers Map a Quarter of the Northern Hemisphere’s Sky Revealing Never-Before-Seen Galaxies
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Researchers have managed to chart a quarter of the northern hemisphere sky and have revealed never-before-seen details of a total…
Strange Glass Spheres and 4 Other Discoveries on the Moon
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Chang’e 4 mission overview The automatic station Chang’e-4 made a soft landing on the far side of the moon on…
If We Want To Find Aliens, NASA’s James Webb Telescope Can Help
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The new observatory will be able to track interstellar objects The operating time of the telescope will be divided into…
5 Things You Should Know About the First Quadruple Asteroid System
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Astronomers confirmed the first quadruple asteroid in history – this is Elektra from the Main Belt, which has now acquired…
Spacecraft Films Massive Solar Eruption Jetting Out Millions of Miles Out Into Space
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The Solar Orbiter recorded the birth and evolution of a giant coronal mass ejection on the Sun, which became the…
Record-Breaking Brown Dwarf Binary Changes Understanding of Star-Formation
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Astronomers have discovered the most severely separated brown dwarf binary system to date – the distance between the components of…
Powerful Solar Storm Almost Caused a Nuclear War Between the US and Soviet Union
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The fact that the weather on the Sun affects the operation of technology on Earth has been known for a…
Around 9,000 Years Ago, Massive Radioactive Solar Tsunami Struck Earth
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Understanding solar storms Under certain conditions, bursts of energetic particles can reach the Earth and even paralyze communications and power…
Astronomers Zoom Into Cosmic Dust And Find Supermassive Black Hole Hiding Within
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What is the unified model of active galactic nuclei? A unified model of active galactic nuclei was developed at the…
Astronomers Spot Largest Galactic Structure to Date—A Gargantuan Galaxy 16 Million Light-Years Across
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Alcyoneus – the biggest galactic structure ever discovered Located about 3 billion light-years from Earth, Alcyoneus is what is known…
NASA’s Cosmic X-Ray Spy Delivers First Cosmic Photons
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The new X-ray telescope IXPE has transmitted the first scientific data to Earth, thanks to which astronomers have built a…
Soil Samples Recovered from Asteroid’s Surface Reveal Its Interior
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Scientists published new results of the analysis of observational data from the station and descent vehicles that studied asteroid Ryugu…