Astronomy

Astronomy

Exotic radio pulses from a distant galaxy

Very Large Array (top) and the FAST radio telescope (bottom). © NAOC Astronomers have now captured numerous ultra-short but extremely powerful radio pulses from...
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Astronomy

First-ever repetitive fast radio flash turns out to have an even stranger brother (and that raises new questions)

The first repeating fast radio burst discovered by scientists is still somewhat the black sheep in the fast radio burst family. But...
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Astronomy

James Webb telescope hit by small space rock

Although the impact was larger than what NASA expected, it does not appear to have caused significant damage to the mirror in question. NASA's...
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Astronomy

Mars helicopter faces navigation problems (but there is still hope)

One of Ingenuity's navigation sensors is failing. And while that's a big problem, the team hopes to get the helicopter up and...
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Astronomy

Jupiter turns out not to have distributed its metals fairly (and that’s surprising)

Under the picturesque outer layer of the gas giant hides a shell that is invisible to us. And in that shell, things...
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Astronomy

Mars rover sees hundreds of dust devils pass by

Never before has a Mars rover seen such a stir as Perseverance. The rover appears to have landed in a place where...
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Astronomy

Costing more than $1 billion, this spacecraft takes stunning photos of our solar system’s largest planet

This summer, Juno has been orbiting Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, for six years now. In these six years,...
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Astronomy

Save the date! First color photos from James Webb telescope are expected July 12

And that's just the beginning. We got a sneak peek a few months ago when the powerful James Webb telescope captured the star 2MASS...
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Astronomy

By scaling up the young Universe, these astrophysicists hope to solve a major problem

How fast is the universe expanding? To that question, much to the frustration of astronomers, we find different answers. A new...
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Astronomy

Evil aliens are probably scarce (and rarely smart enough to attack us)

Some quick mathematical calculations gently hint that an alien invasion should not immediately wake you up. Are we alone? It is a question...
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Astronomy

Ice giant Uranus sees what pips and astronomers think they finally know why

Uranus and Neptune have an incredible amount in common. Only their color is, for reasons inexplicable until recently, slightly different. And...
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Astronomy

Mars helicopter Ingenuity films its own record flight

What do you see when you fly above the surface of our neighboring planet Mars? This is shown in this video, which...
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Astronomy

What is beyond the universe? Or is this all…?

It is one of the great questions of life: what is beyond our universe? Is there life outside of our universe? ...
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Astronomy

A cosmic Black Widow

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit strong pulses of radiation. © Artur Plawgo/ iStock Like black widow spiders, some pulsars bring death to...
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Astronomy

Most powerful space telescope ever just weeks away from first observations

And it's off to a good start: James Webb kicks off by studying two particularly interesting super-Earths. Imagine if Earth were much, much closer...
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Astronomy

American company wants to secure terrestrial data on – or rather in – the moon

Who knows, maybe one day such a major disaster will take place here on earth that we will lose a lot of our...
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Astronomy

‘Door’ on Mars turns out to be a lot smaller than thought

It's more like a dog door, NASA jokes. The photo has provided quite a bit of entertainment and a large number of wild stories...
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Astronomy

“Late” water on Mars

Panorama of the landing site of the Zhurong rover. © China National Space Administration (CNSA) So far it is unclear how long the habitable...
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Astronomy

Space probe captures our moon’s great disappearing act

From a distance of no less than 100 million kilometers, spacecraft Lucy witnessed a lunar eclipse. And that produces very special images. A...
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Astronomy

Giant space rock will zoom past Earth later this week

The space rock – which has a diameter of about 1000 meters – passes our planet at a distance of 'only' just over...
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