Credit: James Josephides (Swinburne Astronomy Productions) Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering 6 million km/h, that was ejected by the supermassive black hole at the heart at the Milky Way five…
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Credit: Illustration is courtesy of the Max Planck Society Washington, DC-- The discovery of a 13 billion-year-old cosmic cloud of gas enabled a team of Carnegie astronomers to perform the earliest-ever measurement of how the…
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Credit: D. Nelson (MPA) and the IllustrisTNG team Scientists from Germany and the United States have unveiled the results of a newly-completed, state of the art simulation of the evolution of galaxies. TNG50 is the most detailed…
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Credit: NASA Heart muscle cells derived from stem cells show remarkable adaptability to their environment during and after spaceflight, according to a study publishing November 7 in the journal Stem Cell Reports. The researchers examined…
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Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) / NOAA Super Typhoon Halong has finally peaked in intensity and is now on a weakening trend. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over…
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Credit: Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) / NOAA NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the South China Sea and captured a visible image of newly formed Tropical Storm Nakri…
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Credit: UCLouvain For 20 years, Véronique Dehant, a space scientist at University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has been working on understanding the Earth's core. In a few months, she will be able to…
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Credit: Credit: NASA/NOAA/NRL NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over the Northern Indian Ocean and provided forecasters at the Joint Typhoon Warning Center with a view of Tropical Cyclone Maha's eroding structure that helped…
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Credit: @The University of Hong Kong A study led by Dr Jeremy Lim and his Research Assistant, Miss Emily Wong, at the Department of Physics of The University of Hong Kong (HKU), utilizing data from the Hubble Space Telescope, has…
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Views of giant planet in wild orbit would be unparalleledCredit: Teo Mocnik / UCR Contrary to previous thought, a gigantic planet in wild orbit does not preclude the presence of an Earth-like planet in the same solar system - or…
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Credit: NASA/NRL NASA infrared imagery revealed Tropical Cyclone Maha was still a powerful storm as it continued moving through the Arabian Sea in the Northern Indian Ocean. On Nov. 4 at 4:45 a.m. EDT (0945 UTC the Moderate Imaging…
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Iowa-led instrument detects plasma density jump, confirming spacecraft has entered the realm of the starsCredit: NASA JPL Voyager 1 has a companion in the realm of the stars. Researchers at the University of Iowa report that the…
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The journal Nature Astronomy has published the work, which has had the collaboration of Thomas Broadhurst, the Ikerbasque Research Professor of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque CountryCredit: Thomas Broadhurst. Photo: UPV/EHU. …
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Research offers a critical understanding of a process both in stars and in chemical systems on Earth. Understanding the thermonuclear explosion of Type Ia supernovae -- powerful and luminous stellar explosions -- is only possible through…
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Credit: University of Tokyo Researchers using telescopes around the world confirmed and characterized an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star through a rare phenomenon known as gravitational microlensing. The exoplanet has a mass…
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