In 2017, a mysterious comet dubbed 'Oumuamua fired the imaginations of scientists and the public alike. It was the first known visitor from outside our solar system, it had no bright coma or dust tail, like most comets, and ...
Astronomy
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With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes as well as a cosmic magnification effect, a team of astronomers led by Wei Zheng of The Johns Hopkins University has spotted what could be the most distant ...
Astronomy
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A giant Jupiter-like gas planet has been revealed to be the most light-thirsty object in the known universe -- a finding that may help astronomers better understand a mysterious characteristic of similar ...
Astronomy
Sep 27, 2011
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Scientists looking to capture evidence of dark matter -- the invisible substance thought to constitute much of the universe -- may find a helpful tool in the recent work of researchers from Princeton University and New York ...
General Physics
Sep 19, 2011
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To take a census of nearby cosmic objects, sending out a survey won't work. Scientists need to use many telescopes with different specializations to chart what is in the general neighborhood of the sun.
Astronomy
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Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are very faint and hard to see. While astronomers have known about the ...
Astronomy
Sep 28, 2023
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The universe is expanding; we've had evidence of that for about a century. But just how quickly celestial objects are receding from each other is still up for debate.
Astronomy
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Scientists have created a gargantuan synthetic survey that shows what we can expect from the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's future observations. Though it represents just a small chunk of the real future survey, this ...
Astronomy
Mar 8, 2023
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ICRAR researchers have discovered tantalizing evidence of magnetic fields in the universe's largest cosmic structures.
Astronomy
Feb 16, 2023
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Scientists of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India and Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST) have identified the nature of thousands of new cosmic objects in X-ray wavelengths using ...
Astronomy
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