Much like how wind plays a key role in life on Earth by sweeping seeds, pollen and more from one place to another, galactic winds - high-powered streams of charged particles and gases - can change the chemical make-up of the host galaxies they form in, simply by blowing in a specific direction.
Mar 30th, 2023
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Astronomers have provided vital information in the global effort to understand the brightest-ever detected gamma ray burst, which swept through our Solar System in October last year.
Mar 28th, 2023
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An international team of researchers has used the James Webb Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b. The measurement is based on the planet's thermal emission: heat energy given off in the form of infrared light detected by Webb's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).
Mar 28th, 2023
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Scientists have discovered that impact glass beads present in the Chang'e-5 lunar soil samples contain water.
Mar 28th, 2023
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A new study proposes an array of interferometers in space to detect subtle fluctuations in the background gravitational signals that may reveal the secrets of black hole mergers.
Mar 27th, 2023
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Researchers have found a neutron star that captures matter from a companion star in a violent and unstable process. This process, previously observed only in very bright black holes, opens the door to new insights into the behaviour of stars.
Mar 27th, 2023
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Astrophysicists have leveraged artificial intelligence to uncover a better way to estimate the mass of colossal clusters of galaxies. The AI discovered that by just adding a simple term to an existing equation, scientists can produce far better mass estimates than they previously had.
Mar 23rd, 2023
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A proposed way to search for alien life using tiny rocks ejected from other worlds.
Mar 23rd, 2023
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An international team has used artificial intelligence to analyze the chemical abundances of old stars and found indications that the very first stars in the Universe were born in groups rather than as isolated single stars.
Mar 23rd, 2023
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Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object found moving through our solar system, may be propelled by hydrogen gas produced by ice reserves according to international researchers.
Mar 22nd, 2023
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Weather report: Expect scattered, patchy clouds made up of silicates on planet VHS 1256 b.
Mar 22nd, 2023
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A team of international astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has changed classification due to unique activity within its core. The galaxy, named PBC J2333.9-2343, was previously classified as a radio galaxy, but the new research has revealed otherwise.
Mar 21st, 2023
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Physicists show that black holes and dense state of gluons - the 'glue' particles that hold nuclear matter together - share common features.
Mar 21st, 2023
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Researchers from the fields of astrophysics, astrochemistry and biochemistry have now determined in a novel, interdisciplinary collaboration the necessary properties that allow moons around free-floating planets to retain liquid water for a sufficiently long time and thus enable life.
Mar 20th, 2023
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It's easy to envisage other universes, governed by slightly different laws of physics, in which no intelligent life, nor indeed any kind of organised complex systems, could arise. Should we therefore be surprised that a universe exists in which we were able to emerge?
Mar 15th, 2023
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The largest data release of relatively nearby supernovae (colossal explosions of stars), containing three years of data from thePan-STARRS telescope is publicly available via the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE).
Mar 15th, 2023
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Researchers have found the earliest evidence of parts of the universe that were heated to temperatures more characteristic to the intergalactic gas medium where most atoms reside in the universe today.
Mar 15th, 2023
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The rare sight of a Wolf-Rayet star - among the most luminous, most massive, and most briefly detectable stars known - was one of the first observations made by the James Webb Space Telescope in June 2022. Webb shows the star, WR 124, in unprecedented detail with its powerful infrared instruments.
Mar 14th, 2023
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