Artistic impression of star cluster R136 containing hundreds of thousands of stars in a huge star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. …
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In the LCROSS mission, NASA crashed a spent rocket booster into the Moon to search for frozen lunar water. Now, new research …
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Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Queen’s Univ. Belfast/M. Nicholl et al.; Optical/IR: PanSTARRS, NSF/Legacy Survey/SDSS; Illustration: Soheb Mandhai / The Astro Phoenix; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. …
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Using Hubble Space Telescope data spanning approximately 90 days (between December 2023 and March 2024) when the giant planet Jupiter ranged from …
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Top and middle: F200W (left) and F356W (right) imaging of AF Lep. AF Lep b is not robustly recovered (>5σ) in either …
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Hubble and New Horizons offer dual perspectives on Uranus to inform exoplanet research
by debarjunby debarjunNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (left) and NASA’s New Horizon’s spacecraft (right) image the planet Uranus. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Samantha Hasler (MIT), …
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NASA has sent a whole host of spacecraft across the Solar System and even beyond. They range from crewed ships to orbit …
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This photo provided by Nicolas Biver shows Comet C/2023 A3 (ATLAS-Tsuchinshan) as seen from Eure-et-Loir, France, June 6, 2024. Credit: Nicolas Biver …
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Good News. Comet Encke Only Threw a Handful of Giant Space Rocks in our Direction
by debarjunby debarjunAs comets travel along their orbit they dump material along the way. A stream of debris known as the Taurid swarm has …
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Team discovers three new magnetic and helium-enriched hot subdwarf stars
by debarjunby debarjunHertzsprung-Russell diagram showing known (dark blue) and new magnetic He-sdOs (light blue), as well as 4630Å-stars (violet). Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2410.02737 …