Astronomers from the University of Texas and the University of Arizona have found a quickly growing black hole in one of the most extreme galaxies known in the extremely early universe. The discovery of the galaxy and also the black hole at its center gives more clues on the formation of the first supermassive black […]
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Kathleen Mandt Kathleen Mandt, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins College’s Applied Physics Research laboratory. In her Perspectives piece published in the journal Science, Kathleen Mandt highlights the scientific value of a dedicated Uranus probe. Uranus, one of the least explored planets in our solar system, has only been visited once by a spacecraft, Voyager
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Astronomers have used three ground-based telescopes in Chile to search for variable stars in the open cluster NGC 6611. They identified 95 variable stars, most of which are likely cluster members. This discovery was published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on February 1st. Studying variable stars can provide essential insights into
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A pair of researchers, hailing respectively from the University of Calgary in Canada and the University of Cambridge in the UK, have found that analyzing rocks from Duluth, Minnesota, may yield understanding about the development of the ancient atmosphere on Mars. Duluth Rocks versus Mars Rocks In their publication in the journal Science Advances, Benjamin
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A group of researchers has discovered a previously unknown ring system around a dwarf planet located at the outer edge of the solar system. This ring system is unique in that it orbits much farther out than other known ring systems, which challenges current theories about the formation of ring systems. The ring system around
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Above the islands of Hawaii on January 28th, a green laser was seen piercing the evening sky, silently tracing a course towards the horizon such as a stutter in the Matrix’s code. The scene was captured on camera from a telescope atop Hawaii’s tallest peak.You could check out the scanning laser in the footage below.
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Utilizing the AstroSat satellite, astronomers from the University of Calgary, Canada, have identified twenty supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Andromeda Galaxy that exhibit diffuse ultraviolet emission. The finding, presented in a research paper released on January 25 on the arXiv preprint server, can help us better comprehend the beginning and properties of ultraviolet emission in
The rotation of the Earth’s solid inner core may have recently stopped briefly as well as could be reversing, according to a study released in Nature Geoscience this week. The authors show proof that oscillation in the rotation of the internal core coincides with periodic changes in the Earth’s surface system which there is an
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A worldwide team of space scientists reports that the moon exerts a tidal effect on the plasmasphere. For their paper released in the journal Nature Physics, the group used information from multiple spacecraft over an almost 40-year period to gauge tidal perturbations in the plasmapause. Balázs Heilig, with the Institution of Earth Physics and Space
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The Jinping Underground Nuclear Astrophysics (JUNA) collaboration has reported a recent direct measurement of the cross-section of an essential stellar neutron source reaction, 13C(α, n)16O. The study research was published in Physical Review Letters on September 23. By reaching the most accurate cross-sectional measurement of this reaction at astrophysical energies so far, the study research
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