Astronomers have just discovered an absolute beast of a galaxy Hiding some 3 billion light-years away, Alcyoneus is a giant radio galaxy reaching five megaparsecs into space. That is 16.3 million light-years long and represents the biggest recognized structure of galactic origin. The finding highlights our poor understanding of these colossi and what drives their […]
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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible-light pictures of the surface of Venus from space Surrounded in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually hidden from view. However, in two current flybys of the Earth, Parker used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the whole nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum– the
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NASA states it could detect “surface features” and even “hints of habitability” on distant planets. NASA is financing research for a conceptual telescope called a “solar gravitational lens” (SGL) that can allow us to observe remote exoplanets at a fantastic resolution– a futuristic endeavor that might assist discovery at last if we are alone in
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The James Webb Space Telescope has observed its very first star (though it was not exactly tonight)– and even taken a selfie, NASA revealed Friday. The telescope’s first photo The steps belong to the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s substantial golden mirror that astronomers hope will start unraveling the secrets of the early Universe
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The Standard Model of Cosmology defines how the universe came into being according to the perspective of most physicists. Researchers at the University of Bonn have actually currently studied the evolution of galaxies within this model, finding considerable inconsistencies with real observations. The University of St. Andrews in Scotland and Charles University in the Czech
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It has long been recognized that Mars once had oceans due, in part, to a protective magnetic field similar to Earth’s. Nevertheless, the electromagnetic field disappeared, and a new research study may lastly be able to explain why. Scientists recreated conditions anticipated in the core of Mars billions of years ago. They found that the
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Cosmic physics simulated on the tabletop as graphene enables the Schwinger effect, forming particle-antiparticle pairs. Researchers at The University of Manchester succeeded in observing the supposed Schwinger effect. The Schwinger effect is an evasive process that usually happens only in cosmic events. The group – based at the National Graphene Institute – accomplished to create
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Water vapor in the atmosphere of planet TOI-674 b This newly found planet, a bit larger than Neptune and orbiting a red-dwarf star roughly 150 light-years away. This size places it in an exclusive club: exoplanets, or planets around different stars, recognized to have water vapor in their atmospheres. Several questions linger, such as how
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Mercury is a really peculiar planet. The tiniest in the solar system and the one nearest to the sun, it rotates slowly in a 3:2 spin resonance and experiences hot temperatures of up to 430 degrees Celsius during the day and cold temperatures of -170 degrees Celsius at night. Its average density is just 1.5
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The Earth’s atmosphere has been utilized as a ‘laboratory’ to perform a physics experiment in a research partnership involving the University of Strathclyde, which can help boost the efficiency of GPS. The research study displays a new method of remotely monitoring the plasma in the ionosphere as well as controlling wave modes in a manner