Astronomy

Astronomy

Ice from snow from below

Representation of the planned NASA space probe Europa Clipper, which is to examine Jupiter's moon Europa, among other things, using ice-penetrating radar. ©...
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Astronomy

The heaviest pulsar in our galaxy

How heavy can pulsars get? © Artur Plawgo/ iStock Neutron stars are...
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Astronomy

Tracking down space debris with lasers

In a German observatory, researchers use sophisticated methods to determine the trajectories...
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Astronomy

“Dormant” stellar black hole discovered

Illustration of the massive star and its partner, a stellar black hole© ESO/L. Calçada ...
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Ten years of the Higgs boson

These particle tracks reveal the presence of a Higgs boson in the LHC's CMS detector. © CERN/ CMS Collaboration ...
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Asteroids: On the trail of missing “face powder”.

The asteroid Bennu has a strikingly rough surface. © NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona ...
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The first images from the James Webb Telescope

Star forming region NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. © NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI ...
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Traces of a torn planetary system

This illustration shows a white dwarf sucking up debris from its former planetary system. © NASA, ESA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) ...
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How Charon’s polar ice cap formed

Pluto's moon Charon and its red polar cap. © NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / SwRI ...
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Spectacular: These are the photos from the James Webb telescope (we’re looking back in time 13 billion years)

Here they are: the first five color photos from the James Webb telescope. Hubble's successor does not disappoint. The images, which...
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Astronomy

10 percent chance that someone will get a piece of rocket on their head in the next 10 years

Mainly rain falls from the sky and ahead, the occasional hailstone. But you probably don't consider pieces of rocket that you can...
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Astronomy

Exceptionally long-lasting and strange radio signal discovered in space

The fast radio burst acts like a beating heart and may have originated from a dashing distant neutron star. Rapid radio bursts – huge...
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Astronomy

Mars cart Perseverance is looking for a suitable landing spot for its successor

And the mantra is: the duller, the better. Mars rover Perseverance is on the hunt for traces of (decayed) life. And in this...
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Astronomy

Zombies in a dead galaxy: Bizarre exoplanets were discovered 30 years ago and turn out to be very rare

The first evidence of a planet outside our solar system came in 1992. This exoplanet was found near a rapidly spinning neutron star,...
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Astronomy

‘Hopeless’ search for neutrinos from just after the Big Bang, a small step further

If you want to cash in on a Nobel Prize quickly, you'd better choose another subject. But the experiment KATRIN has just...
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Astronomy

This is the impressive first color image from the James Webb telescope

US President Joe Biden unveiled the first color image from NASA's James Webb telescope at the White House yesterday. This first image...
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Astronomy

Huge cloud of gas in our Milky Way galaxy is full of ingredients of building blocks for life

At the center of our Milky Way, the building blocks of RNA are abundant. Are these nitriles responsible for life on Earth...
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Astronomy

Surface of asteroid Bennu turns out to be a ball pit

The boulders that make up the surface of asteroid Bennu barely stick together, new research shows. The asteroid Bennu continues to amaze. Earlier,...
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Astronomy

Colliding galaxies? Yes, but you have to look closely!

Somewhere in this Hubble image, two galaxies collide. And no, it's not the two large spiral galaxies that seem to be sliding...
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Astronomy

These ancient microbes lived on light. And now help us track down extraterrestrial life

The earliest life on Earth got its energy from sunlight, which penetrated deep into the waters of the ocean. What does that...
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