For three decades, astronomers thought that only Saturn's moon Janus confined the planet's A ring -- the largest and farthest of the visible rings. But after poring over NASA's Cassini mission data, astronomers now conclude that the teamwork of seven moons keeps this ring corralled.
Oct 17th, 2017
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Collision created large amounts of the heaviest elements, such as gold, platinum and uranium, pumping them into space and unlocking the mystery of how they are formed.
Oct 16th, 2017
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A new study with observations from the robotic telescope MASTER-IAC at the Teide Observatory will help to clear up some unknown factors in the initial phase.
Oct 13th, 2017
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NASA's Juno spacecraft has helped explain how volcanoes on the moon Io spew particles that are flung out by Jupiter's magnetic field, before rebounding back. A high-speed atmospheric encounter on the return leg creates the Red Giant's once mysterious transient auroras.
Oct 13th, 2017
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Astronomers have directly measured the distance to a star-forming region on the opposite side of our Milky Way Galaxy from the Sun, using the Very Long Baseline Array.
Oct 13th, 2017
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An algorithm that helps engineers design better helicopters may help astronomers more precisely envision the formation of planets and galaxies.
Oct 12th, 2017
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Ten observatories put their sight on the dwarf planet.
Oct 11th, 2017
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Astronomers have announced that they have discovered possibly the most luminous 'new star' ever - a nova discovered in the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Oct 11th, 2017
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An international team of researchers has found evidence a supernova explosion that was first triggered by a helium detonation.
Oct 5th, 2017
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Speculation to account for KIC 8462852's dips in brightness has ranged from it having swallowed a nearby planet to an unusually large group of comets orbiting the star to an alien megastructure.
Oct 5th, 2017
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First-time discovery of chemical compound Freon-40 in space.
Oct 4th, 2017
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The discovery found that the nature of dark energy may not be the cosmological constant introduced by Albert Einstein 100 years ago, which is crucial for the study of dark energy.
Oct 3rd, 2017
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The space environment is no longer the sole preserve of government agencies. Private companies have entered the exploration domain and are propelling the sector forward more vigorously and swiftly than would be the case if left to governments alone.
Oct 3rd, 2017
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The cosmic ripples were not only observed by the two Ligo observatories in the USA, but also the Italian detector Virgo.
Sep 27th, 2017
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Astronomers, using an observatory on board a jumbo jet, have observed how the extrasolar Planet GJ 1214b is passing in front of its star, causing a kind of mini-eclipse.
Sep 27th, 2017
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The Saturn Nebula is located approximately 5000 light years away in the constellation of Aquarius (The Water Bearer). Its name derives from its odd shape, which resembles everyone's favourite ringed planet seen edge-on.
Sep 27th, 2017
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Astrophysicists are trying to simulating all the processes in the structure and formation of the universe. It's like solving a very large physics puzzle.
Sep 26th, 2017
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A recently discovered dwarf galaxy in the constellation Lynx may serve well as a proxy for better understanding the developing chemistry of the early universe.
Sep 25th, 2017
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