Astronomers say they have solved an outstanding problem that challenged our understanding of how the Universe evolved - the spatial distribution of faint satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way.
Dec 20th, 2022
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Scientists analyzed new measurements showing that the light emitted by stars outside our galaxy is two to three times brighter than the light from known populations of galaxies, challenging assumptions about the number and environment of stars are in the universe.
Dec 17th, 2022
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Researchers may have answered a decades-old question about galaxy evolution, leveraging the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate their research.
Dec 16th, 2022
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Astronomers have found evidence that two exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf star are water worlds, planets where water makes up a large fraction of the volume.
Dec 16th, 2022
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Scientists studied the cellular processes that regulate the adaptation of microorganisms to perchlorates. If microorganisms could genetically adapt their stress response to this salt, which occurs in some deserts and on Mars, their survival on the red planet might be possible.
Dec 15th, 2022
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Machine learning has deduced the rules governing the relationship between the growth of a galaxy and the growth of the supermassive black hole at its center. The tight correlation between the two growth rates found in this research confirms a decades-old theory.
Dec 15th, 2022
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When the rover Perseverance landed on Mars, it was equipped with the first working microphone on the planet's surface. Scientists have used it to make the first-ever audio recording of an extraterrestrial whirlwind.
Dec 14th, 2022
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The antimatter counterpart of a light atomic nucleus can travel a long distance in the Milky Way without being absorbed, shows the international ALICE collaboration.
Dec 13th, 2022
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Use of picogram to nanogram-scale probes that can land, replicate, and produce a communications module at the destination to explore nearby stars.
Dec 13th, 2022
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Researchers simulate an entire family of universes with curvature in ultracold quantum gases.
Dec 10th, 2022
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Scientists study ways to send atomic clocks closer to the sun to understand the universe's greatest mysteries
Dec 10th, 2022
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The biochemical process by which cyanobacteria acquire nutrients from rocks in Chile's Atacama Desert has inspired engineers to think of new ways microbes might help humans build colonies on the moon and Mars.
Dec 9th, 2022
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Around 2500 years ago, a star ejected most of its gas forming the beautiful Southern Ring Nebula, NGC 3132, one of the first five image packages from the James Webb Space Telescope.
Dec 9th, 2022
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A long-duration gamma-ray burst observed in late 2021 revealed signatures typically associated with short-duration bursts, forcing puzzled scientists to create a new model for the origin of this unique burst.
Dec 8th, 2022
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There is a lot of space junk orbiting the Earth. Researchers believe that in the future, there will be a market for its removal and have developed an entirely new type of robot vision that will make this possible.
Dec 5th, 2022
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Thanks to its efficiency at infrared wavelengths and the sharpness of the images of the JWST, researchers have been able to explore the intracluster light from SMACS-J0723.3-7327 with an unprecedented level of detail.
Dec 3rd, 2022
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The observations could illuminate how supermassive black holes feed and grow.
Dec 1st, 2022
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Astronomers have been able to piece together data showing that a supermassive black hole has been snacking on a nearby star.
Nov 30th, 2022
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