Killer cosmic rays from nearby supernovae could be the culprit behind at least one mass extinction event, researchers said, and finding certain radioactive isotopes in Earth’s rock record could confirm …read more Source:: Science
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A fast radio burst tracked down to a nearby galaxy
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•Astronomers have pinpointed the location of a repeating fast radio burst. The breakthrough is only the second time that scientists have determined the precise location of a repeating source of …read more Source:: Science
TESS satellite uncovers ‘first nearby super-Earth’
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•NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system — and …read more Source:: Science
TESS discovers three new planets nearby, including temperate ‘sub-Neptune’
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•NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has discovered three new worlds that are among the smallest, nearest exoplanets known to date. The planets orbit a star just 73 light …read more Source:: Science
A nearby river of stars
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•Astronomers have found a river of stars, a stellar stream in astronomical parlance, covering most of the southern sky. The stream is relatively nearby and contains at least 4000 stars …read more Source:: Science
Wearable computing ring allows users to write words and numbers with thumb
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•With the whirl of a thumb, researchers have created technology that allows people to trace letters and numbers on their fingers and see the figures appear on a nearby computer …read more Source:: Science
Stellar explosions and cosmic ‘recipe’ for nearby universe
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•Thanks to an in-depth look into the composition of gas in the Perseus galaxy cluster, Japan’s Hitomi mission has given scientists new insights into the stellar explosions that formed its …read more Source:: Science
Colorful Carina Nebula blasted by brilliant nearby stars
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•The spires and pillars in the new images of the Carina Nebula are vast clouds of dust and gas within a hub of star formation about 7500 light-years away. …read more Source:: Science