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Researchers confirm an exoplanet potentially capable of sustaining life
An international team has confirmed the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of a nearby sun-like star. The planet was originally detected two years ago by Oxford University scientist Dr. Michael Cretignier. ...
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Feb 8, 2025
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There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed. HVSs travel much faster than normal stars, and sometimes, they can exceed the galactic escape velocity. ...
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Feb 7, 2025
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Astronomers find dark matter dominating in early universe galaxies
An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies roughly 13 billion light years away. Their study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, gives new ...
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Feb 7, 2025
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'Temperamental' stars may be distorting exoplanet observations
"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study led by UCL researchers.
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Feb 7, 2025
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New data model paves way for seamless collaboration among US and international astronomy institutions
Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic—revealing the mysteries of the universe. The U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory ...
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Feb 6, 2025
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Astronomers find the largest structure in the universe and name it Quipu
Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not likely. In practical terms? Definitely not. Extremely large objects can distort our understanding ...
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Feb 6, 2025
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XMM-Newton finds two stray supernova remnants
When the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, scientists were able to confirm what seemed an unlikely discovery. They ...
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Feb 6, 2025
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A final 'pure' tone emitted after a collision of neutron stars may reveal their interiors
Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt have identified a new way to probe the interior of neutron stars using gravitational waves from their collisions. By analyzing the "long ringdown" phase—a pure-tone signal emitted ...
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Feb 6, 2025
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Astronomers reveal largest radio jet ever seen in the early universe
From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers. The gas and dust falling into these black holes liberates an enormous amount of energy as a result ...
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Feb 6, 2025
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Unique metal-poor luminous blue variable inspected by astronomers
Russian astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a unique extremely metal-poor luminous blue variable star known as DDO68-V1. Results of the observational campaign, published Jan. 28 on the arXiv pre-print server, ...

Dusting for a young star's magnetic fingerprint illuminates planet formation
For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought to be forming. The team was able to use dust to measure the three-dimensional structure "fingerprint" ...
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Feb 6, 2025
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Solar cycle study reveals trends in charged particle numbers and interactions
A large team of researchers working on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Collaboration, which has been analyzing eleven years' worth of data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) aboard the International Space Station, ...

International team captures direct high-definition image of the 'cosmic web'
Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively referred to as the cosmic web. With hundreds of hours of observations, an international team of researchers ...
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Feb 5, 2025
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Scientists spot tiny sun jets driving fast and slow solar wind
In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be powering the solar wind. The team behind this research has now used even more data from the European ...
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Feb 5, 2025
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En route to Jupiter, Europa Clipper captures images of stars
Three months after its launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency's Europa Clipper has another 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion kilometers) to go before it reaches Jupiter's orbit in 2030 to take close-up ...
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Feb 4, 2025
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High-precision spectrograph confirms massive exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star
With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the most massive planets known to orbit a low-mass star. Gaia-4b is also the first planet detected ...
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Feb 4, 2025
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Model shows spinning neutron stars gain enormous magnetic fields
An international team of scientists has modeled the formation and evolution of the strongest magnetic fields in the universe.
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Feb 4, 2025
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Straight shot: Hubble investigates galaxy with nine rings
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a cosmic bullseye. The gargantuan galaxy LEDA 1313424 is rippling with nine star-filled rings after an "arrow"—a far smaller blue dwarf galaxy—shot through its heart. Astronomers ...
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Feb 4, 2025
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Webb investigates dusty and dynamic protoplanetary disk HH 30
This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope Picture of the Month presents HH 30 in unprecedented detail. This target is an edge-on protoplanetary disk that is surrounded by jets and a disk wind, and is located in the ...
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Feb 4, 2025
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SETI researchers double-check 1 million objects for signs of alien signals
We can't help ourselves but wonder about life elsewhere in the universe. Any hint of a biosignature or even a faint, technosignature-like event wrests our attention away from our tumultuous daily affairs. In 1984, our wistful ...
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Feb 4, 2025
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