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Sky today, Friday, June 19: Dione transits north of Saturn
Return to list of articles Saturn’s small moon Dione transits north of the ringed planet early on the morning of…
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Evidence for protostellar jets as a population of hadronic gamma-ray sources
Shu, F. H., Adams, F. C. & Lizano, S. Star formation in molecular clouds: observation and theory. Annu. Rev. Astron.…
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This brave little carnivore fights off rival groups. Now researchers have discovered something surprising about their defenses
When you are a a little A creature in the animal kingdom, you have to be constantly on the lookout…
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Einstein’s “greatest blunder” may finally have an explanation
One of the biggest unsolved problems in physics revolves around a number known as the cosmological constant. This value describes…
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In 2002, astronomers averaged the light of 200,000 galaxies and declared that the universe was pale turquoise. They then traced the color to a software error and corrected it to beige, calling it cosmic latte.
The universe is the color of weak coffee In 2002, Johns Hopkins University astronomers Karl Glazebrook and Evan Baldry averaged…
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NASA is collaborating with Relativity Space on the Aeolus Mars mission
The mission aims to launch in 2028, with Relativity funding and building the spacecraft with its own Terran R rocket…
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Deep sea dwellers go years without food with a clever biological fix
A pill bug that lives under a garden pot curls its body into a small armored ball for self-defense. Far…
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Einstein’s “greatest blunder” may finally have an explanation
One of the biggest unsolved problems in physics revolves around a number known as the cosmological constant. This value describes…
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The pink planet is so strange, astronomers are struggling to define it. They have just discovered that it is covered in salty clouds
There is a pink planet, a stone’s throw from Earth, that astronomers have been trying to decipher for more than…
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An Indian astronomer finds salty clouds on an entirely pink planet
An Indian astronomer using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered one of the strangest worlds ever observed: a…
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