A team of astronomers has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light years away. …read more Source:: Science
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Astronomers discover new class of cosmic explosions
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•Analysis of two cosmic explosions indicates to astronomers that the pair, along with a puzzling blast from 2018, constitute a new type of event, with similarities to some supernovae and …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers find wandering massive black holes in dwarf galaxies
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•Studies with the VLA indicate that roughly half of the massive black holes in dwarf galaxies are not in the centers of those galaxies. This gives astronomers new insights into …read more Source:: Science
Hubble observes first confirmed interstellar comet
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•Hubble has given astronomers their best look yet at an interstellar visitor — comet 2I/Borisov — whose speed and trajectory indicate it has come from beyond our solar system. Comet …read more Source:: Science
Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet’s colorful belts
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•Coordinated observations of Jupiter in early 2017 by six ground-based telescopes and Hubble allowed astronomers to study the evolution of bright plumes and connect them with cloud movements deep in …read more Source:: Science
Moon-forming disk discovered around distant planet
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•Using Earth’s most powerful array of radio telescopes, astronomers have made the first observations of a circumplanetary disk of gas and dust like the one that is believed to have …read more Source:: Science
Hubble uncovers black hole that shouldn’t exist
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•As if black holes weren’t mysterious enough, astronomers have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of the magnificent spiral …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers see ‘warm’ glow of Uranus’s rings
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•Two telescopes have measured the faint heat from the main, or epsilon ring, of Uranus, enabling astronomers for the first time to determine its temperature: a cool 77 Kelvin. Earlier …read more Source:: Science
Matter around a young star helps astronomers explore our stellar history
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•Astronomers have mapped the substance aluminum monoxide in a cloud around a distant young star — Origin Source I. The finding clarifies some important details about how our solar system, …read more Source:: Science
The space rock that hit the moon at 61,000 kilometers an hour
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•Observers watching January’s total eclipse of the Moon saw a rare event, a short-lived flash as a meteorite hit the lunar surface. Astronomers now think the space rock collided with …read more Source:: Science