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High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space
Through his research at Caltech, a local high school student revealed 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space, broadened the potential of a NASA mission, and published a single-author paper.
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Galactic superwinds may help galaxies leak ionizing radiation, Haro 11 study finds
Our new study of the nearby starburst galaxy Haro 11 has shown that strong X-ray-emitting superwinds may be a key mechanism enabling galaxies to leak ionizing radiation, which is believed to have played a major role in the ...
Hubble captures a star's swan song in planetary nebula Kohoutek 4-55
The swirling, paint-like clouds in the darkness of space in this stunning image seem surreal, like a portal to another world opening up before us. In fact, the subject of this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image is very ...
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Satellite galaxies gone awry: Andromeda's asymmetrical companions challenge cosmology
The Andromeda galaxy is surrounded by a constellation of dwarf galaxies that are arranged in a highly lopsided manner. Analysis of cosmological simulations published in Nature Astronomy reveal that this degree of asymmetry ...
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How NASA science data defends Earth from asteroids
The asteroid 2024 YR4 made headlines in February with the news that it had a chance of hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032, as determined by an analysis from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at the agency's ...
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From boring to bursting: A giant black hole awakens
Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, their very nature makes them difficult to spot and study. In contrast to the popular idea of black ...
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Webb's autopsy of planet swallowed by star yields surprise
Observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have provided a surprising twist in the narrative surrounding what is believed to be the first star observed in the act of swallowing a planet. The new findings, published ...
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Apr 10, 2025
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Our closest neighboring galaxy may be being torn apart
A team led by Satoya Nakano and Kengo Tachihara at Nagoya University in Japan has revealed new insights into the motion of massive stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a small galaxy neighboring the Milky Way.
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Apr 10, 2025
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'Hidden galaxies' could be smoking gun in universe riddle
Astronomers have peered back in time to find what looks like a population of "hidden" galaxies that could hold the key to unlocking some of the universe's secrets. If their existence is confirmed it would "effectively break ...
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Apr 10, 2025
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X-ray binary 4U 1907+09: NuSTAR observations reveal flux variability and spin-down
Using NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR), Indian astronomers have performed X-ray observations of an X-ray binary designated 4U 1907+09. Results of the observational campaign, published April 3 on the arXiv ...
Energy densities offer new path to resolving the Hubble tension
Researchers from the University of Waterloo have proposed a new method to measure the Hubble constant that could help resolve one of modern cosmology's pressing puzzles: the Hubble tension.
Our understanding of the physical properties of galaxies could be wrong
Up until recently, astronomy was reliant entirely on electromagnetic waves. While that changed with the confirmation of gravitational waves in 2016, astronomers had developed fundamental frameworks in the electromagnetic ...
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Apr 9, 2025
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Supermassive black holes could strip stars down to their helium cores
We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star passes too close to a black hole. What if a star gets close enough to a star to experience strong tidal ...
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Apr 9, 2025
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Astronomy professor offers new theory on universe's star formation
The universe doesn't come with an instruction manual—but if it did, University of Missouri Assistant Professor Charles Steinhardt suspects a few pages are missing. Either the universe has been playing by different rules ...
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Apr 9, 2025
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This star might have been thrown out of a globular cluster by an intermediate mass black hole
Black holes come in a range of sizes. Stellar mass black holes form from the collapse of massive stars, typically weighing between 5 and 100 times the mass of our sun, and are scattered throughout galaxies. At the other extreme ...
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Apr 9, 2025
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Scientists discover how stellar-mass black holes emit powerful plasma jets
Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A stellar mass black hole is a type of black hole that forms from the gravitational collapse of a massive ...
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Apr 9, 2025
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Scientists source solar emissions with largest-ever concentration of rare helium isotope
The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the sun. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists sought the source of this unusual occurrence ...
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Apr 9, 2025
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Hubble unveils first images of ongoing star cluster mergers near center of dwarf galaxies
A new study reports the first direct observation of merging star clusters in the nuclear region of dwarf galaxies. This detection confirms the feasibility of this formation route for nuclei in dwarf galaxies, which has long ...
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Apr 9, 2025
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Where to find the next Earth: Machine learning accelerates the search for habitable planets
A team from the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS has developed a machine-learning model that predicts potential planetary systems with Earth-like planets. The model could ...
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Apr 9, 2025
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Hubble studies a nearby galaxy's star formation
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the picturesque spiral galaxy NGC 4941, which lies about 67 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo (The Maiden). Because this galaxy is nearby, cosmically ...
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Apr 9, 2025
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