Astronomy

Astronomy

A quantum computer as an optimization genius

A braid of copper-colored cables surrounds an inconspicuous chip in the middle. You can see the Advantage2 quantum annealer from D-Wave. This quantum computer...
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Astronomy

Webb Telescope provides most accurate map of dark matter

Dark matter map from the Hubble Telescope (left) and new map from the James Webb Telescope. © Gavin Leroy, Richard Massey/ COSMOS-Webb collaboration Dark matter...
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Eye to eye with a crocodile

This American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) won't harm any fly. It shows no movement whatsoever, although horseflies sit on its snout and feed on its...
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Astronomy

A hotspot in the brain

The so-called dendritic thorns run through a mouse brain like bright, yellow lightning. They sit on the dendrites, the fine branches of nerve cells...
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New vibrational states discovered in magnetic vortices

Floquet-controlled magnons: A static magnetic vortex is set in motion by time-periodic excitation, thereby generating a frequency comb. © Katrin and Helmut Schultheiss So-called Floquet...
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Astronomy

Young chimpanzees are little daredevils

High in the canopy, a young chimpanzee hangs from a branch, its mother's hand close by, ready to intervene if something goes wrong. The...
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Astronomy

Ice layer protected Martian lakes

Mars' Gale Crater today. There may have been a lake there in the past. © NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS There are numerous geological traces of ancient lakes...
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Astronomy

Two cosmic collisions around a nearby star

This artist's impression shows the collision of two planetesimals in the young, developing planetary system Fomalhaut. © Thomas Müller (HdA/MPIA) Astronomers have discovered something new...
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Astronomy

Active galaxy nucleus spews ultrafast winds

For the first time, astronomers have observed ultrafast particle streams during the outburst of radiation from a supermassive black hole. © European Space Agency...
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Astronomy

Exoplanet WASP-121b has a double tail

This is what the hot gas giant WASP-121b could look like with its two tails. © Benoit Gouegeon/University of Montreal When extrasolar gas giants get...
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Astronomy

How stray light from satellites threatens space exploration

Needs as clear and undisturbed a view of the cosmos as possible: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. © dima_zel/iStock/NASA In the next decade, almost all images...
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Astronomy

Fourth type of neutrino is becoming less likely

Interior view of the electrostatic spectrometer in the KATRIN experiment in Karlsruhe, the world's most accurate neutrino "balance". © Michael Zacher/KIT, KATRIN Collaboration Neutrinos are...
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Astronomy

Theia and early Earth were neighbors

Collision of the protoplanet Theia with the young Earth. © MPS/Mark A. Garlick About 4.5 billion years ago, a momentous catastrophe occurred: a protoplanet called...
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Astronomy

Astronomers observe the early phase of a supernova for the first time

When a massive star explodes in a supernova, the geometry of the early phase can reveal a lot about the mechanism. © ESO/L. Calcada When...
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Astronomy

Comet 3I/ATLAS: Unexpected encounter in space

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has just passed its closest point to the sun. Now the JUICE space probe is taking a closer look at...
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Astronomy

X-ray laser reveals new shape of water ice

At room temperature and normal pressure, water molecules are only loosely bound - water is liquid, as seen here. But under high pressure, exotic...
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Astronomy

Martian volcanoes as a source of ice?

Eruptions of Martian volcanoes, here Syrtis Major, may once have created ice deposits near the equator. © ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum) ...
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Astronomy

Fast winds on Mars

A blast of wind on Mars captured by the Trace Gas Orbiter camera. © ESA/TGO/CaSSIS ...
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Astronomy

Quantum tunnels are also macroscopic

The three Nobel Prize winners in 2025 proved for the first time that quantum tunnels are possible on a macroscopic scale. © Johan Jarnestad/The...
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Astronomy

Riddles of the error lights solved

Symbol image for error lights over a wetland. © Kevin McDonald/iStock There are...
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