Earthbound detectives rely on fingerprints to solve their cases; now astronomers can do the same, using "light-fingerprints" instead of skin grooves to uncover the mysteries of exoplanets.
Astronomy
Jul 31, 2018
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In the last decade, we have discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system and have learned that rocky, temperate worlds are numerous in our galaxy. The next step will involve asking even bigger questions. Could ...
Astronomy
Jun 26, 2018
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Greenland can now brag about hosting a large, operational radio telescope, with a dish measuring 12 metres in diameter.
Astronomy
Jun 14, 2018
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A fresh look at data from a 1997 flyby of Jupiter's moon, Europa, suggests that NASA's Galileo spacecraft flew directly through a watery plume, raising hopes of probing the jets for signs of life around the second planet ...
Space Exploration
May 14, 2018
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About 200 to 400 million years after the Big Bang created the universe, the first stars began to appear. Ordinarily stars lying at such a great distance in space and time would be out of reach even for NASA's new James Webb ...
Astronomy
Apr 25, 2018
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A key decision on where to place a $1.4 billion giant telescope has been delayed.
Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2018
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An extremely deep multi-band optical image from the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT, Hawaii. USA) casts a new light on the formation process of the famous group of 5 colliding galaxies. The image reveals structures undetected ...
Astronomy
Feb 7, 2018
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ANUÂ will play a major role in the Taipan galaxy survey, which will for the first time measure the current expansion rate of the universe with one per cent precision.
Astronomy
Feb 1, 2018
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NASA is beginning to design its next big astrophysics mission, a space telescope that will provide the largest picture of the universe ever seen with the same depth and clarity as the Hubble Space Telescope.
Astronomy
Dec 22, 2017
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Astronomers expect that the first galaxies, those that formed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, would share many similarities with some of the dwarf galaxies we see in the nearby universe today. These early ...
Astronomy
Dec 6, 2017
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