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To commemorate three decades of scientific discoveries, this image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime.
Apr 24th, 2020
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After spotting a curious pattern in scientific papers - they described exoplanets as being cooler than expected - astronomers have improved a mathematical model to accurately gauge the temperatures of planets from solar systems hundreds of light-years away.
Apr 24th, 2020
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Understanding how atoms react under high-pressure conditions - a field known as high-energy-density physics - gives scientists valuable insights into the fields of planetary science, astrophysics, fusion energy, and national security.
Apr 24th, 2020
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The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is following an asteroid approaching Earth this week and while it poses no threat, it appears to know our planet is facing a pandemic.
Apr 23rd, 2020
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For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified. The lunar map, called the 'Unified Geologic Map of the Moon', will serve as the definitive blueprint of the moon's surface geology for future human missions and will be invaluable for the international scientific community, educators and the public-at-large.
Apr 23rd, 2020
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Modelling shows big galaxies get bigger by merging with smaller ones.
Apr 22nd, 2020
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What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system, has now seemingly vanished from sight. Astronomers now suggest that a full-grown planet never existed in the first place.
Apr 22nd, 2020
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In seeking to learn more about Neptune-like exoplanets, an international team of researchers has provided one of the first mineralogy lab studies for water-rich exoplanets.
Apr 22nd, 2020
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Findings may change fundamental thinking about star system formation, dynamics.
Apr 20th, 2020
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Observations have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity. Its orbit is shaped like a rosette and not like an ellipse as predicted by Newton's theory of gravity.
Apr 16th, 2020
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New data throws more support behind the theory that neutrinos are the reason the universe is dominated by matter.
Apr 15th, 2020
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Physicists demonstrate 'self-interacting dark matter' model can be tested using astronomical observations of Draco and Fornax.
Apr 15th, 2020
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Satellite images from the BRITE mission document for the first time the complete development of a nova from eruption to maximum brightness and burn out.
Apr 14th, 2020
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A new scenario based on computer simulations accounts for all of the observed characteristics of the first known interstellar object to visit our solar system.
Apr 13th, 2020
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A supernova at least twice as bright and energetic, and likely much more massive than any yet recorded has been identified by an international team of astronomers.
Apr 13th, 2020
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Researchers used an Earth-bound simulator of the space station instrument to grow E. coli, demonstrating that it can be nurtured with methods that promise to be more suitable for space travel than existing alternatives.
Apr 10th, 2020
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Based on facts known about the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn in our own Solar System, a team of scientists realized that they possibly could measure a brown dwarf's wind speed by combining radio observations from the VLA and infrared observations from Spitzer.
Apr 10th, 2020
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Astronomers reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet emerging from two colliding galaxies - in essence, the first photographic proof that merging galaxies can produce jets of charged particles that travel at nearly the speed of light.
Apr 8th, 2020
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