Astronomy

Astronomy

Three asteroids pose no danger to Earth after all – but one turns out to be more dangerous

Thanks to Groningen astronomers, the list of asteroids that could ram into Earth in the coming century has become somewhat shorter. If an asteroid...
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Astronomy

NASA is going to investigate whether it can also go into space without rockets

Take, for example: an enormous vacuum chamber containing a rapidly rotating arm. And lo and behold: an innovative, cheap way to put...
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Astronomy

Neptune is acting crazy: Scientists see temperatures on the ice giant drop unexpectedly

And they can't explain that right now. Like the Earth, Neptune – as it revolves around the sun – has different seasons. But...
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Astronomy

Higher dimension makes travelable wormhole an option

A wormhole that you can actually fly through is indeed possible. At least: if we assume that our universe has an extra...
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Astronomy

The W boson is heavier

The Tevatron particle accelerator in the USA provided the data for the mass measurement. © Fermilab The W boson is the carrier particle of...
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Astronomy

You’ve never seen Saturn so beautiful before

The space photo of the week is this stunning shot of our solar system's most famous ring planet, Saturn. The photo was...
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Astronomy

Huge collection of wind boulders forces Mars rover Curiosity to turn around

The mission team wants to prevent the rover's wheels from wearing out unnecessarily. And so a new route has been mapped out. Mars...
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Astronomy

Particle seems heavier than theory dictates – and a new particle may be the ‘culprit’

The mass of the so-called W boson is greater than previously thought, a team of physicists has concluded after years of analysis. ...
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Astronomy

Extreme magnetic field could give doomed neutron star a few years of respite

Neutron stars that are so massive that they should collapse into a black hole can still exist for several years thanks to an...
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Astronomy

Farthest galaxy ever discovered

Astronomers have spotted the farthest cosmic object ever: a galaxy 13.5 billion light-years away. Last week, researchers released big news: Hubble had captured light...
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Astronomy

Jupiter’s twin brother discovered 17,000(!) light-years away

It is the most distant planet ever discovered by the now-retired planet hunter Kepler. And that with the help of a special...
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Astronomy

This weekend, a spaceship completely filled with private astronauts will dock at the ISS: a first!

The four private astronauts will stay on board the ISS for about eight days, during which time they will conduct more than 25...
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Astronomy

Hubble discovers ‘impossible gas giant’ and proves nature can craft planets in multiple ways

The gas giant is in a place where it could not possibly have been formed by conventional means. This confirms what researchers...
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Astronomy

The few sounds on Mars travel slow and don’t get that far

Two microphones have recently been placed on Mars and their recordings have now yielded some startling conclusions. This is apparent from an extensive analysis...
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Astronomy

This is what a galaxy looks like at different wavelengths

Unfortunately, we cannot see infrared light, ultraviolet radiation or X-rays with our own eyes. Still, scientists look at galaxies, black holes and...
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Astronomy

Neutrinos are lighter than 0.8 electron volts

View into KATRIN's main spectrometer. © Joachim Wolf/ KIT Neutrinos are light elementary particles that play a crucial role in particle physics and cosmology....
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Astronomy

Sun Spits Out Huge Solar Flare (And That’s Just the Beginning)

We are heading for a solar maximum. Scientists have used NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory – a space probe that keeps a close eye on...
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Astronomy

Hubble discovers the farthest star ever

The star, which has been given the name Earendel, was found at a distance of no less than 12.9 billion light-years. The record has...
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Astronomy

Up to 7 kilometers high ice volcanoes spotted on Pluto

And some of these must have erupted relatively recently. It's been about seven years since the New Horizons spacecraft skimmed past dwarf planet...
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Astronomy

Traces of unusual star weddings?

Artist's impression of a merger of two white dwarfs. © Nicole Reindl Study results suggest that when two stellar partners finally merge completely at...
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