Earth's heavy metals result of supernova explosion
That gold on your ring finger is stellar—and not just in a complimentary way.
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Subaru Telescope captures 1800 new supernovae
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope identified about 1800 new supernovae in the distant universe, including 58 Type Ia supernovae over 8 billion light-years away. These findings will help elucidate the expansion of the ...
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May 30, 2019
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See the moon photobomb saturn in an amazing capture
Welcome to Saturn as you've probably never seen it. It's always awe-inspiring to see the clockwork motion of the heavens transpire in real time. In a slow motion universe, occultations give us the chance to see the cosmos ...
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Collaboration enables investigation of the origin of heavy elements
A team of experts in atomic physics, nuclear fusion, and astronomy has computed high-accuracy atomic data for analyzing light from a kilonova, a birth place of heavy elements. They found that their new data set could predict ...
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Making stars when the universe was half its age
The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, and its stars are arguably its most momentous handiwork. Astronomers studying the intricacies of star formation across cosmic time are trying to understand whether stars and the ...
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Scientists orchestrate a symphony of the stars
A new stellar library has been created by UK and US scientists to, for the first time, give us a window of understanding on to our and other galaxies.
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Hubble goes deep
This image from the Hubble Deep UV (HDUV) Legacy Survey encompasses 12,000 star-forming galaxies in a part of the constellation Fornax known as the GOODS-South field. With the addition of ultraviolet light imagery, astronomers ...
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The power of the wobble: Finding exoplanets in the shifting of starlight
They say there's more than one way to skin an interstellar cat, and in astronomy there's more than one way to find alien exoplanets orbiting a distant star. With the recent shut-down of NASA's prolific Kepler mission and ...
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Nov 21, 2018
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Image: Hubble finds smiling face in a hunt for newborn stars
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), shows a patch of space filled with galaxies of all shapes, colors and sizes, many of which belong to the galaxy cluster SDSS J0952+3434.
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Study provides new insight into why galaxies stop forming stars
Galaxy clusters are rare regions of the universe consisting of hundreds of galaxies containing trillions of stars, as well as hot gas and dark matter.
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