An asteroid will just miss us in 2029: Scientists are making the most of a rare opportunity
To be clear: The asteroid is not going to hit us.
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A true view of infant star clusters
Super star clusters (SSCs) are dense clusters of bright young stars. As they evolve their intense radiation can clear gas and dust from their region. But as they are forming the region around them is still undisturbed. Because ...
Astronomy
Jan 13, 2023
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Years of monarch butterfly research shows how adding habitat will help conservation
When the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium was formed seven years ago, Iowa State University researchers faced two big questions about reestablishing the milkweed and other wildflowers needed for the iconic butterfly's ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2022
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Image: Hubble spies a stunning spiral
This cosmic portrait—captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3—shows a stunning view of the spiral galaxy NGC 4571, which lies approximately 60 million light-years from Earth in the constellation ...
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Mar 28, 2022
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Image: Nebula churns out massive stars in new Hubble image
Stars are born from turbulent clouds of gas and dust that collapse under their own gravitational attraction. As the cloud collapses, a dense, hot core forms and begins gathering dust and gas, creating a protostar. This star-forming ...
Astronomy
Nov 17, 2021
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GECAM team reports first detection of gamma-ray transients
In the early morning of Jan. 20 (Beijing Time), the Gravitational Wave High-Energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM or Huairou-1) team reported their first detection of a gamma-ray transient (GRB 210119A) ...
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Jan 25, 2021
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Star formation project maps nearby interstellar clouds
Astronomers have captured new, detailed maps of three nearby interstellar gas clouds containing regions of ongoing high-mass star formation. The results of this survey, called the Star Formation Project, will help improve ...
Astronomy
Mar 23, 2020
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Largest data set in SETI history released to the public
Breakthrough Listen—the astronomical program searching for signs of intelligent life in the Universe—has submitted two publications to leading astrophysics journals, describing the analysis of its first three years of ...
Astronomy
Jun 19, 2019
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CSIRO telescope marks 25 years of success
One of the world's most successful astronomy observatories, CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array near Narrabri, New South Wales (NSW), turns 25 years of age on 2 September.
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Aug 26, 2013
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Hubble focuses on 'the great attractor'
(Phys.org)—A busy patch of space has been captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Scattered with many nearby stars, the field also has numerous galaxies in the background.
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