Astronomy

Astronomy

Asteroid Phaeton does not have a dust tail

Asteroid (3200) Phaeton near the sun (illustration). © NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC Unlike most meteor showers, the Geminids are not caused by a comet, but by the asteroid...
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Stellar dancing couple with a dark future

Artist's impression of the binary star system SSN 7: The smaller and hotter star with 32 solar masses (left) loses material to its 55...
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Galactic giants of the early cosmos

Six early galaxies imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope. © NASA/ESA/CSA, I Labbe (Swinburne University of Technology); Image processing: G. Brammer...
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A young star at the black hole

Jungstern X3a and its surroundings. © Florian Peißker Extreme conditions prevail around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way – enormous tidal...
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Protostar connects solar system water and interstellar medium

Planet-forming disk around protostar V883 Orionis and water molecules partially composed of deuterium (illustration). ©ESO/L. Calçada ...
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What was before the Big Bang?

What formed the beginning of all being - or did it exist at all? Artist's rendering of the Big Bang. ...
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Fewer and fewer stars visible in the sky

Light pollution from the very dark sky (left) to the inner-city sky. © NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, P. Marenfeld ...
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UV flickering heralding solar bursts of radiation

Active solar region on the day before a flare (left) and before a calm day. © NASA/SDO/AIA/Dissauer et al. 2022 ...
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Icy building blocks of life in a molecular cloud

Center of the Chameleon I cold molecular cloud, imaged by the James Webb Telescope. © © NASA/ESA/CSA and M. Zamani (ESA/Webb) ...
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Nearby Earth-sized exoplanet could be habitable

Artist's rendering of a habitable rocky planet similar to Wolf 1069 b. © NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter ...
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Flight test for antimatter cores

Collage of the ALICE detector and a galaxy. © ORIGINS Cluster/S. kwauka Although normal matter dominates over antimatter in the universe, there are many physical...
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Sound recording of a Martian dust devil

Video: This is what it sounded like when a sand devil hit the Mars rover Perseverance. Source: NPG Press Alien Sounds: The Perseverance rover recorded...
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Ignition in laser fusion

Nuclear fusion by laser bombardment. © Damien Jemison/ LLNL Nuclear fusion is considered to be the potential energy of the future, but there is still...
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The “Science” highlights of 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope is the 2022 Breakthrough of the Year. © ESA/ATG medialab Every year, shortly before Christmas, the specialist magazine "Science" selects...
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Exoplanet with shrinking orbit

Illustration of Kepler-1638 and its planet Kepler-1638b. © Gabriel Perez Diaz/Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias if(document.documentElement.clientWidth<=1220){ //var...
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immigrants from the outskirts

Assay results from samples from the asteroid Ryugu point to a formation site beyond the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn. © JAXA, University...
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Revealing impacts on Mars

Depiction of the meteorite impact of December 24, 2021 on Mars and the propagation of the surface waves to the InSight probe. ©...
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Planets can “rejuvenate” their stars

Artist's rendering of a hot Jupiter orbiting its host star closely. The "twin star" of the double system can be seen in the...
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Astronomers discover the closest black hole to Earth

An inactive stellar black hole and a sun-like star (illustration). © International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani ...
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The rediscovery of our neighboring world

World not so strange anymore: Impression of the Mars crater Jezero, taken in July 2021 by the NASA rover Perseverance. The hill in...
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