What will happen to Earth when, in a few billion years' time, the Sun is a hundred times bigger than it is today? Using the most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis. Five billion years ago, this star was very similar to the Sun as it is today.
Dec 8th, 2016
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Astronomers find most massive double neutron star system with Einstein@Home.
Dec 8th, 2016
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Astronomers have identified what they believe to be the second generation of stars, shedding light on the nature of the universe's first stars.
Dec 6th, 2016
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Scientists have developed a new optical chip for a telescope that enables astronomers to have a clear view of alien planets that may support life.
Dec 6th, 2016
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International team of scientists has discovered that the biggest galaxies in the universe develop in cosmic clouds of cold gas.
Dec 2nd, 2016
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An international team of scientists showed that solar winds transport way more energy towards the Earth than previously thought.
Dec 1st, 2016
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Same class of algorithms used by Google and Netflix can also tell us if distant planetary systems are stable or not.
Dec 1st, 2016
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New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the intricate structure of the galaxy NGC 4696 in greater detail than ever before. The elliptical galaxy is a beautiful cosmic oddity with a bright core wrapped in system of dark, swirling, thread-like filaments.
Dec 1st, 2016
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VLT observations of neutron star may confirm 80-year-old prediction about the vacuum.
Nov 30th, 2016
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Astronomers have observed the transit of a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet known as K2-3d. While transits have previously been observed for thousands of other extrasolar planets, K2-3d is important because there is a possibility that it might harbor extraterrestrial life.
Nov 28th, 2016
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Scientists working on a revolutionary telescope project have harnessed the power of distributed computing from the UK's GridPP collaboration to tackle one of the Universe's biggest mysteries - the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Nov 24th, 2016
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Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, a team of scientists has determined using data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Nov 22nd, 2016
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Astrophysicists will use a supercomputer to explore the driving forces behind mass loss in massive stars.
Nov 22nd, 2016
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A team of astronomers has discovered a large number of dwarf galaxies in the early universe by using the gravitational lensing phenomenon, completing astronomers' census of star-forming galaxies in that epoch.
Nov 21st, 2016
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Astrophysicists catch a glimpse of rapidly spinning neutron stars that 'black out'.
Nov 18th, 2016
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Data from New Horizons mission suggest a water-ice ocean lies beneath Pluto's heart-shaped basin.
Nov 17th, 2016
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Its short orbital period could help with future studies of biological activity.
Nov 16th, 2016
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Astronomers have linked extremely reddened quasars to strong galactic outflowing winds that inhibit star formation in the early universe.
Nov 15th, 2016
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