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A radio burst traveled 10 billion years before reaching Earth, and the newly detected FRB acts like a time capsule from the early universe.
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (831+ words) Home - Science - A radio burst traveled 10 billion years before reaching Earth, and the newly detected FRB acts like a time capsule from the early universe A powerful radio signal has reached Earth after crossing a staggering stretch of the universe,…...
Sand Clouds Form Every Morning and Vanish by Dusk on Distant Gas Giant
3+ hour, 3+ min ago (30+ words) On a world some 700 light years away, the wind never stops. WASP-94 A b spins one face toward its star forever, so a single hemisphere bakes at well over...
Mysterious dust ring beyond Jupiter formed many of our Solar System's earliest worlds
2+ hour, 37+ min ago (1136+ words) Simulations suggest one dust trap beyond Jupiter formed multiple planetesimal types over millions of years. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) In the young Solar System, a dust trap beyond Jupiter may have built wildly different meteorite parent bodies over two million…...
SPHEREx more than doubled the confirmed population of heavily reddened quasars at cosmic noon " and the new sample may catch supermassive black holes as they begin clearing the dust around them
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Astronomers clarify exoplanet atmospheres with new cloud-detection technique
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (543+ words) Discovery led by UC Santa Cruz Ph. D. of daily cloud cycle on a hot Jupiter exoplanet provides unique window into its make-up An artistic rendition of exoplanet WASP-94 A b Credit: Hannah Robbins, Johns Hopkins University For students at the…...
A dying star may have just unveiled an internal structure that current stellar models cannot explain
18+ hour, 44+ min ago (704+ words) A distant, fading sun has sparked a jolt of curiosity: its inner layers appear to be arranged in a way that defies the equations astronomers rely on. In delicate ripples of light, the star is sending hints that its core…...
The Milky Way ate another galaxy. Scientists say they've found the scraps
20+ hour, 44+ min ago (1025+ words) WASHINGTON " An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about 10 billion years ago. Astronomers have dubbed the ancient galaxy Loki, after the Norse god of mischief. The finding could change…...
Milky Way Devoured Ancient Dwarf Galaxy Loki Billions of Years Ago
20+ hour, 39+ min ago (743+ words) An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about 10 billion years ago, as reported by Ksl. Astronomers have dubbed the ancient galaxy Loki, named after the Norse god of mischief....
Helium was discovered on the Sun 27 years before anyone found it on Earth " spotted as an unexplained yellow line in sunlight during an 1868 eclipse and named after Helios, the Greek sun god, long before the gas was identified in any mineral on this planet.
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Dwarf galaxies reveal secrets of the early Universe
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (599+ words) The Universe's Smallest Galaxies Turn Out to Be Highly Responsive to Early Cosmic Conditions inkorr. com The Universe's Smallest Galaxies Turn Out to Be Highly Responsive to Early Cosmic Conditions How Dwarf Galaxies Form: A Major Simulation Study According to…...