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By measuring gases around young stars, astronomers unlock major clues to planet formation
An international team of scientists led by astronomers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison has produced the most accurate measurement of the gases swirling around young stars and how their mass changes over time. The ...
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Astronomers have found the home address for the universe's 'missing' matter
A new landmark study has pinpointed the location of the universe's "missing" matter, and detected the most distant fast radio burst (FRB) on record. Using FRBs as a guide, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard ...
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Small-scale solar explosion reveals big clues about magnetic reconnection
Using the world's largest solar telescope, a team of scientists has captured one of the most detailed views ever of a microflare—a small yet powerful solar explosion. The images are helping scientists understand the complexity ...
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Simulation reveals emergence of jet from binary neutron star merger followed by black hole formation
Binary neutron star mergers, cosmic collisions between two very dense stellar remnants made up predominantly of neutrons, have been the topic of numerous astrophysics studies due to their fascinating underlying physics and ...
Multiple X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations detected in X-ray binary IGR J19294+1816
Using the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), Chinese astronomers have observed an X-ray binary system designated IGR J19294+1816. As a result, they discovered multiple X-ray quasi-periodic oscillations in this source. ...
Semi-heavy water ice detected around young sunlike star for first time
A team led by astronomers at Leiden University in the Netherlands and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia (U.S.) have, for the first time, robustly detected semi-heavy water ice around a young sunlike star. ...
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Global resolution: Radio telescope network captures image of distant black hole jet
The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the world's largest network of radio telescopes, EVN, has observed together with South Africa's MeerKAT, ...
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Jun 13, 2025
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1000 hours with the Square Kilometer Array may be our best hope to finally see Cosmic Dawn
Scientists have created a computer simulation that mimics what the Square Kilometer Array Low-frequency (SKA-Low) telescope will see when it searches for signals from the universe's earliest epochs. This simulation represents ...
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Jun 13, 2025
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Astronomers map unusual inner workings of a jellyfish galaxy with 'bunny ears'
Astronomers have discovered a "jellyfish" galaxy whose unusual shape and internal mechanisms—including distinctive "bunny ears" and an inner "tail"—are giving researchers an unprecedented view of dynamics within one of ...
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Jun 12, 2025
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Unlocking the mysteries of the universe with multi-messenger gravitational lensing
Combining the way that massive galaxies and galaxy clusters bend space and magnify our view of the distant universe with powerful new instruments sensitive to gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation will lead to ...
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Jun 12, 2025
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NASA's Roman to peer into cosmic 'lenses' to better define dark matter
Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark matter does not reflect, ...
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Jun 12, 2025
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How recurrent fluorescence helps organic molecules survive extreme interstellar conditions
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unlocked the depths of interstellar space with unprecedented clarity, offering humanity a high-resolution window into the cosmos. Harnessing this newfound capability, an international ...
Three hot Jupiter exoplanets discovered with TESS
Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected three new hot Jupiter exoplanets orbiting three distant K dwarf stars. The finding was reported in a research paper ...
Solar Orbiter captures unprecedented views of sun's turbulent south pole
Virtually all space probes that explore the sun from space view our star from the ecliptic. This is the plane in which the planets orbit the sun. Although this plane is slightly tilted relative to the sun's equator, the angle ...
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Jun 11, 2025
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In the belly of the beast: Massive clumps reveal star factories from a bygone era of the cosmos
Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in a large number of galaxies across the local universe. The findings provide a rare glimpse into processes shaping galaxies in the ...
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Jun 11, 2025
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Webb 'UNCOVERs' galaxy population driving cosmic renovation
Astronomers using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed the early universe into the one we know today.
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Jun 11, 2025
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75 years after Fermi's paradox, are we any closer to finding alien life?
It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the atomic age, was dining with colleagues at Los Alamos, New Mexico, when the conversation turned to ...
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Jun 11, 2025
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NASA's CODEX captures unique views of sun's outer atmosphere
Scientists analyzing data from NASA's CODEX (Coronal Diagnostic Experiment) investigation have successfully evaluated the instrument's first images, revealing the speed and temperature of material flowing out from the sun. ...
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Jun 11, 2025
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Supernovae may have kicked off abrupt climate shifts in the past—and they could again
When a star explodes, it sends high-energy particles out in all directions. This burst of energy can travel through space for thousands of light-years, traversing solar systems and even galaxies.
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Jun 11, 2025
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Filtering terrestrial contamination in the search for alien signals
How can radio astronomers successfully identify extraterrestrial radio signals while discerning them from Earth-based radio signals? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as a ...
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Jun 11, 2025
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