New exoplanet too big for its stars
The Australian discovery of a strange exoplanet orbiting a small cool star 500 light years away is challenging ideas about how planets form.
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Faraway Eris is Pluto's twin: Dwarf planet sized up accurately as it blocks light of faint star
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have measured the diameter of the dwarf planet Eris by catching it as it passed in front of a faint star. This was seen by telescopes in Chile, including the TRAPPIST telescope at ESO's La Silla ...
Astronomy
Oct 26, 2011
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NGC 4710 galaxy: Baffling boxy bulge (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as many people are surprised to find themselves packing on unexplained weight around the middle, astronomers find the evolution of bulges in the centres of spiral galaxies puzzling. A recent NASA/ESA ...
Astronomy
Nov 18, 2009
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Astronomers identify the coldest star yet that emits radio waves
Astronomers at the University of Sydney have shown that a small, faint star is the coldest on record to produce emission at radio wavelength.
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Astronomers discover two potentially habitable exo-Earths around a star near the sun
An international scientific team led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered the presence of two planets with Earth-like masses in orbit around the star GJ 1002, a red dwarf not far ...
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Dec 15, 2022
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Possible first evidence of coronal rain on a cool, small M-dwarf star
High-resolution spectroscopic observations of a stellar flare on a small, cool star indicate the possibility of coronal rain, a phenomenon that has been observed on our sun but not yet confirmed on a star of this size. This ...
Astronomy
Dec 20, 2021
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Giant, low-surface-brightness galaxies
Forty years ago, astronomers using sensitive new imaging techniques discovered a class of large, faint galaxies they named low-surface-brightness galaxies. Giant low-surface-brightness galaxies (gLSBGs) are a subset whose ...
Astronomy
Jun 4, 2021
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Da Vinci's hand impairment caused by nerve damage, not stroke, suggests new study
A fainting episode causing traumatic nerve damage affecting his right hand could be why Leonardo da Vinci's painting skills were hampered in his late career. While the impairment affected his ability to hold palettes and ...
Archaeology
May 6, 2019
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Discovery of many new ultra-diffuse galaxies in galaxy clusters
In preparation for the new multi-object survey spectrograph, WEAVE, on the 4.2m William Herschel Telescope, the astronomical community is working on deep imaging surveys to identify the astronomical objects that will be studied ...
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Mar 4, 2019
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Scientists detect comets outside our solar system
Scientists from MIT and other institutions, working closely with amateur astronomers, have spotted the dusty tails of six exocomets—comets outside our solar system—orbiting a faint star 800 light years from Earth.
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Oct 26, 2017
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