AI algorithm unblurs the cosmos
The cosmos would look a lot better if Earth's atmosphere wasn't photo bombing it all the time.
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News tagged with astronomer
Star Trek's planet Vulcan found to not be a planet after all
A large international team of space scientists has discovered that the detection of an exoplanet orbiting the star 40 Eridani was made in error. The group has published a paper on the arXiv pre-print server describing their ...
New supernova analysis reframes dark energy debate
The accelerating expansion of the Universe may not be real, but could just be an apparent effect, according to new research published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The new study—by a ...
Astronomy
Sep 13, 2017
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Video shows a meteoroid skipping off Earth's atmosphere
Here's something we don't see very often: an Earth-grazing meteoroid.
Astronomy
Sep 29, 2020
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Theoretical physicists argue that black holes admit vortex structures
Black holes are astronomical objects with extremely strong gravitational pulls from which not even light can escape. While the idea of bodies that would trap light has been around since the 18th century, the first direct ...
Celestial boondocks: Study supports the idea we live in a void
Cosmologically speaking, the Milky Way and its immediate neighborhood are in the boondocks.
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Jun 6, 2017
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Are we being watched? Tens of other worlds could spot the Earth
A group of scientists from Queen's University Belfast and the Max Planck Institute for solar system Research in Germany have turned exoplanet-hunting on its head, in a study that instead looks at how an alien observer might ...
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Sep 8, 2017
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Still searching for Planet 9
The solar system has eight planets. In 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet, the same class that contains Eris, Sedna, Quaoar, Ceres and perhaps many more solar system small bodies. These are defined approximately ...
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Mar 14, 2022
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Image: Hubble snaps yet another spiral galaxy
The spiral galaxy M91 fills the frame of this Wide Field Camera 3 observation from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. M91 lies approximately 55 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices and—as ...
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Apr 18, 2022
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Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time
Astronomers have used a planet-hunting satellite to see a white dwarf abruptly switching on and off for the first time.
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Oct 18, 2021
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