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5/30/19
'Forbidden' planet challenging astronomers' understanding of solar systems
The gaseous exoplanet is three times the size of Earth, has a temperature of 1,000 degrees and an orbit of just 1.3 days around its star. But it shouldn't exist, astronomers say.
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6/7/19
Cosmic bridge reveals first evidence of magnetic fields between galaxy clusters
Astrophysicists discover a giant ridge of plasma emitting radio waves that connects two galaxy clusters 10 million light years apart.
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6/9/19
Jupiter is so close this week you'll be able to see its moons. Here's how to spot our giant neighbor.
A photo of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope with the gas giant's Great Red Spot clearly visible. Jupiter will be at its biggest and brightest in our sky this week, giving those on Earth our best chance of the year to see the gas giant and four of its moons. Jupiter -- our solar system's largest planet -- will be at its closest point to Earth on Monday, June 10, according to NASA. It will...
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6/10/19
A new candidate for dark matter and a way to detect it
A simulation of the large-scale structure of the universe with filaments of dark matter in blue and places of galaxy formation in yellow. Dark matter cannot yet be detected directly. UC Davis physicists have proposed a new model to explain it. Credit: Zarija Lukic/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Two theoretical physicists at the University of California, Davis have a new candidate for dark...
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6/17/19
How do you catch something smaller than an atom that's travelled across galaxies?
Scientists in Japan are hoping 11,000 huge 'lightbulbs' in a tank deep underground will help capture clues to the origins of life. Step inside Super Kamiokande.
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6/23/19
'It sounded like a huge bomb': Queenslanders amazed as meteor lights up night sky
Hundreds of people across southern and central Queensland report seeing a spectacular meteor burning up in the atmosphere north of Brisbane last night.
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6/27/19
Astronomers discover the source of unexplained cosmic radio burst
To discover the source of a one-off, mysterious space signal, an international team of astronomers utilized telescopes around the world. CSIRO/Dr. Andrew Howells Astronomers keep hearing unexplained, incredibly powerful signals from the far reaches of space -- signals that come through loud and clear for a thousandth of a second and then mysteriously disappear. First discovered in 2007, "these...
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7/15/19
The last lunar eclipse for the next two years will happen on Wednesday morning
As the moon landing anniversary approaches, the Moon, Earth and Sun are lining up for their own party in the sky this week.
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8/30/19
An astrophysicist explains string theory in language you might just understand
Over the last century, we've ripped atoms apart, revealing smaller and smaller pieces, eventually finding electrons and quarks, the fundamental building blocks of stuff. But are they really fundamental? Not according to string theory, as astrophysicist Geraint Lewis explains.
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9/13/19
Water has been detected on potentially habitable planet, but it's no Earth 2.0
An alien super-world 110 light years away from us is the first outside our solar system to have conditions that are potentially suitable to host life, astronomers say.
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