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Why the moon shimmers with shiny glass beads
The Apollo astronauts didn't know what they'd find when they explored the surface of the moon, but they certainly didn't expect to see drifts of tiny, bright orange glass beads glistening among the otherwise monochrome piles ...
Planetary Sciences
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Webb 'UNCOVERs' galaxy population driving cosmic renovation
Astronomers using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have identified dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic makeover that transformed the early universe into the one we know today.
Astronomy
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In the belly of the beast: Massive clumps reveal star factories from a bygone era of the cosmos
Astronomers have surveyed massive, dense star factories, unlike any found in the Milky Way, in a large number of galaxies across the local universe. The findings provide a rare glimpse into processes shaping galaxies in the ...
Astronomy
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Peculiar microquasar SS 433 shows increasing orbital period and unique accretion disk behavior
Russian astronomers from the Sternberg Astronomical Institute (SAI) have analyzed long-term observational data of a peculiar microquasar designated SS 433. Results of the new study, published May 13 in the Physics-Uspekhi ...
Supernovae may have kicked off abrupt climate shifts in the past—and they could again
When a star explodes, it sends high-energy particles out in all directions. This burst of energy can travel through space for thousands of light-years, traversing solar systems and even galaxies.
Astronomy
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Solar Orbiter captures unprecedented views of sun's turbulent south pole
Virtually all space probes that explore the sun from space view our star from the ecliptic. This is the plane in which the planets orbit the sun. Although this plane is slightly tilted relative to the sun's equator, the angle ...
Astronomy
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Webb telescope images frigid exoplanet in strange orbit
A planetary system described as abnormal, chaotic, and strange by researchers has come into clearer view with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Using Webb's NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera), researchers have successfully imaged ...
Planetary Sciences
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Earth-based telescopes offer a fresh look at Cosmic Dawn
For the first time, scientists have used Earth-based telescopes to look back over 13 billion years to see how the first stars in the universe affect light emitted from the Big Bang.
Astronomy
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75 years after Fermi's paradox, are we any closer to finding alien life?
It was a simple question asked over lunch in 1950. Enrico Fermi, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped usher in the atomic age, was dining with colleagues at Los Alamos, New Mexico, when the conversation turned to ...
Astronomy
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NASA's CODEX captures unique views of sun's outer atmosphere
Scientists analyzing data from NASA's CODEX (Coronal Diagnostic Experiment) investigation have successfully evaluated the instrument's first images, revealing the speed and temperature of material flowing out from the sun. ...
Astronomy
13 hours ago
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The proposed NASA budget cuts would decimate American science, an expert says
President Donald Trump has proposed the single largest year-over-year cut to NASA's budget in his 2026 budget proposal, essentially terminating many of the space agency's most promising missions.
Space Exploration
15 hours ago
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Filtering terrestrial contamination in the search for alien signals
How can radio astronomers successfully identify extraterrestrial radio signals while discerning them from Earth-based radio signals? This is what a recent study published in The Astronomical Journal hopes to address as a ...
Astronomy
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SpaceX plans up to 76 Starship launches annually from old Delta IV launch site
The first of two Environmental Impact Statements around SpaceX plans for Starship launch sites on Florida's Space Coast was released last week, and it lays out the company's plans to fly as many as 76 times a year from Cape ...
Space Exploration
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PUNCH mission images huge solar eruption
Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Craig DeForest discussed the latest accomplishments of NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission during a media event at the 246th American Astronomical Society ...
Planetary Sciences
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SpaceX launches Starlink mission while Axiom Space waits out weather
June 10 morning's weather was nice enough on the Space Coast for one of two planned launches, but high winds at a potential abort site forced the human spaceflight plans of Axiom Space and SpaceX to push the Ax-4 mission ...
Space Exploration
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Where is the center of the universe?
About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed like a contradiction in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Astronomy
Jun 10, 2025
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Record-breaking cosmic structure discovered in colossal galaxy cluster
Astronomers have discovered the largest known cloud of energetic particles surrounding a galaxy cluster—spanning nearly 20 million light-years. The finding challenges long-standing theories about how particles stay energized ...
Astronomy
Jun 10, 2025
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Astronomers perform a long-term investigation of open cluster Berkeley 65
Astronomers from the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES) in India and elsewhere have employed the Devasthal Fast Optical Telescope (DFOT) to conduct long-term photometric observations of an open ...
Moons of Uranus surprise scientists in Hubble study
Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.
Planetary Sciences
Jun 10, 2025
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A 'teenage' white dwarf pulsar may be the missing link among magnetic stars
The future of yellow dwarf stars, like our sun, is determined almost entirely by their mass. The most massive stars, about eight to 12 times heftier than the sun, can explode as supernovae, leading to the most extreme objects ...
Astronomy
Jun 10, 2025
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