Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have formed in the universe. These …read more Source:: Science
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Gravitational waves could shed light on the origin of black holes
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•The detection of gravitational waves has given astronomers a new way of looking at the universe, and a new study shows how these ripples in the fabric of spacetime might …read more Source:: Science
The volatile processes that shaped Earth
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•Although it is widely understood that Earth was formed gradually, from much smaller bodies, many of the processes involved in shaping our growing planet are less clear. Astronomers have now …read more Source:: Science
Twilight observations reveal huge storm on Neptune
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•Striking images of a storm system nearly the size of Earth have astronomers doing a double-take after pinpointing its location near Neptune’s equator, a region where no bright cloud has …read more Source:: Science
Massive dead disk galaxy challenges theories of galaxy evolution
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•By combining the power of a ‘natural lens’ in space with the capability of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery — the first example of a compact …read more Source:: Science
Star’s birth may have triggered another star birth, astronomers say
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•Radio images give new evidence that a jet of material from one young star may have triggered the gas collapse that started another young star. …read more Source:: Science
Cold brown dwarf discovered close to our solar system
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•A new citizen-science tool released earlier this year to help astronomers pinpoint new worlds lurking in the outer reaches of our solar system has already led to a discovery: a …read more Source:: Science
Extreme Jupiter weather and magnetic fields
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•New observations about the extreme conditions of Jupiter’s weather and magnetic fields by astronomers have contributed to the revelations and insights coming from the first close passes of Jupiter by …read more Source:: Science
First signs of weird quantum property of empty space?
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•By studying the light emitted from an extraordinarily dense and strongly magnetized neutron star, astronomers may have found the first observational indications of a strange quantum effect, first predicted in …read more Source:: Science
Our galaxy’s most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought
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•A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year. …read more Source:: Science