Chemical traces from star formation cast light on cosmic history
Fresh insight into how stars are formed is challenging scientists' understanding of the Universe.
Astronomy
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News tagged with distant star
Stellar dust survey paves way for exoplanet missions
Veils of dust wrapped around distant stars could make it difficult for scientists to find potentially habitable planets in those star systems. The Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial Systems, or HOSTS, survey was ...
Astronomy
Apr 26, 2018
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Goodbye Kepler, hello TESS—passing the baton in the search for distant planets
For centuries, human beings have wondered about the possibility of other Earths orbiting distant stars. Perhaps some of these alien worlds would harbor strange forms of life or have unique and telling histories or futures. ...
Astronomy
Apr 9, 2018
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Life beyond Earth—no plate tectonics, no problem
Scientists looking for life on distant planets are making plans to search non-Earth-like planets based on discoveries within our solar system that are challenging long-standing ideas about habitable zones, plate tectonics ...
Astronomy
Mar 28, 2018
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Chasing a stellar flash with assistance from Gaia
Last year, ESA's Gaia mission helped astronomers make unique observations of Neptune's largest moon, Triton, as it passed in front of a distant star. This is a preview of the superb quality and versatility of the Gaia data ...
Astronomy
Feb 28, 2018
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You, too, can be an astrophysicist with your new telescope
A telescope can reveal the beauty of the universe, such as the Moon's craters, Saturn's rings, and the glowing gas of the Orion nebula. But a telescope isn't just for sightseeing – it is also a scientific instrument.
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Jan 5, 2018
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MUSE probes uncharted depths of Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Astronomers using the MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile have conducted the deepest spectroscopic survey ever. They focused on the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, measuring distances and properties of 1600 very ...
Astronomy
Nov 29, 2017
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Momentum braking in deep space
With a miniaturised space probe capable of accelerating to a quarter of the speed of light, we could reach Alpha Centauri, the nearest star, in 20 to 50 years. However, without a mechanism to slow it down, the space probe ...
Space Exploration
Nov 20, 2017
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The anatomy of a 'cosmic snake' reveals the structure of distant galaxies
We have a fair understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that regulate star formation in galaxies, from the interstellar matter to the diffuse clouds distributed in space whose gravitational contraction leads to the birth ...
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Nov 14, 2017
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Extremely massive exoplanet discovered in the Milky Way's bulge
(Phys.org)—As a result of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observations of a microlensing event, astronomers have found an extremely massive alien world circling a star located in the Milky Way's bulge. The newly discovered ...
