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New framework suggests stars dissolve into neutrons to forge heavy elements
Understanding the origin of heavy elements on the periodic table is one of the most challenging open problems in all of physics. In the search for conditions suitable for these elements via "nucleosynthesis," a Los Alamos ...
Astronomy
Apr 25, 2025
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Webb helps scientists better understand solar system's origins
University of Central Florida (UCF) scientists and their collaborators discovered new insights into the formation of distant icy objects in space beyond Neptune, offering a deeper understanding of our solar system's formation ...
Astrobiology
Apr 25, 2025
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Disk discovery changes views on star and planet formation
A study led by Paolo Padoan, ICREA research professor at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of Barcelona (ICCUB), is challenging the understanding of planetary disk formation around young stars.
Astronomy
Apr 25, 2025
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Circinus West: A dark nebula harboring a nest of newly formed stars
A celestial shadow known as the Circinus West molecular cloud creeps across this image captured from Chile with the 570-megapixel Department of Energy–fabricated Dark Energy Camera—one of the most powerful digital cameras ...
Astronomy
Apr 25, 2025
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Multi-spacecraft radio observations trace the heliospheric magnetic field
Solar flares accelerate energetic electrons that escape into interplanetary space, guided by the Parker spiral magnetic field, and are responsible for the generation of the interplanetary Type III solar radio bursts. With ...
Astronomy
Apr 25, 2025
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Fully automated laboratory heads into orbit to test food production in space
Cranfield University spin-out company Frontier Space has sent a fully automated laboratory into orbit as part of a European Space Agency project to assess the viability of creating lab-grown food in microgravity.
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2025
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NASA Marshall fires up hybrid rocket motor to prep for moon landings
NASA's Artemis campaign will use human landing systems, provided by SpaceX and Blue Origin, to safely transport crew to and from the surface of the moon, in preparation for future crewed missions to Mars. As the landers touch ...
Space Exploration
Apr 25, 2025
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A novel concept for a multiplanetary crewed mission to Mars and Ceres
For NASA, sending a crewed mission to Mars has been the long-term goal for over two decades. China has joined the club in recent years, with plans to send crewed missions to the red planet ahead of NASA. In both cases, the ...
Space Exploration
Apr 24, 2025
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Fifteen new giant radio galaxies discovered with ASKAP
Using the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), astronomers have discovered 15 new giant radio galaxies with physical sizes exceeding 3 million light years. The finding was reported in a research paper published ...
Dark matter search: Dimming starlight may signal passage of dark compact objects
The detection of dark matter, an elusive form of matter believed to account for most of the universe's mass, remains a long-standing goal within the physics research community. As this type of matter can only emit, reflect ...
Super-Earths are common outside the solar system, new study shows
An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting its star farther out than Saturn is ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 24, 2025
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Webb spots clues of a black hole at the heart of nearby galaxy M83
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 83 (M83). This surprising ...
Astronomy
Apr 24, 2025
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High velocity gas-clump in Milky Way neighborhood may be a dark galaxy
A team of astronomers and astrophysicists at the Chinese Academy of Science's National Astronomical Observatories has found evidence suggesting that a "gas clump" in a fast-moving cloud in the neighborhood of the Milky Way ...
Largest imaging spectro-polarimeter achieves first light at solar telescope
The U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, the world's most powerful solar telescope, operated by the NSF National Solar Observatory (NSO) near the summit of Maui's Haleakalā, reached a major ...
Astronomy
Apr 24, 2025
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Astrophysicists solve the mystery as to why some meteorites look less shocked
Carbon-containing meteorites look like they had less severe impacts than those without carbon because the evidence was blasted into space by gases produced during the impact. The Kobe University discovery not only solves ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 24, 2025
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NASA's Roman mission shares detailed plans to scour skies
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team shared Thursday the designs for the three core surveys the mission will conduct after launch. These observation programs are designed to investigate some of the most profound ...
Space Exploration
Apr 24, 2025
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NASA orbiter spots Curiosity rover making tracks to next science stop
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has never been camera shy, having been seen in selfies and images taken from space. But on Feb. 28—the 4,466th Martian day, or sol, of the mission—Curiosity was captured in what is believed ...
Planetary Sciences
Apr 24, 2025
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NASA tests key spacesuit parts inside this icy chamber
When NASA astronauts return to the moon under the Artemis campaign and eventually venture farther into the solar system, they will encounter conditions harsher than any humans have experienced before. Ensuring next-generation ...
Space Exploration
Apr 24, 2025
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Spaceship carrying 3 Chinese astronauts docks with Tiangong space station in latest crew rotation
A spaceship carrying three astronauts docked Thursday with China's space station in the latest crew rotation, marking a further step in the country's ambitions for a crewed mission to the moon and explore Mars.
Space Exploration
Apr 24, 2025
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Seeing the waves that make the sun's corona so hot
If you happen to be enjoying a sunny day, thank the bright surface of the sun, known as the photosphere. At a piping hot temperature of about 5,800 K, the photosphere provides nearly all the sunlight Earth receives. But for ...
Astronomy
Apr 24, 2025
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