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Bizarre Things: Space & Time
October 8, 2020
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Moon's Magnetic Crust Research Sees Scientists Debunk Long-Held Theory

Oct. 7, 2020 — New international research into the Moon provides scientists with insights as to how and why its crust is magnetized, essentially 'debunking' one of the previous longstanding ...

Looking for Pieces of Venus? Try the Moon

Oct. 7, 2020 — A growing body of research suggests the planet Venus may have had an Earth-like environment billions of years ago, with water and a thin ...

Explaining the Formation of a Hexagon Storm on Saturn

Oct. 6, 2020 — Researchers create a new 3D model that could explain the formation of a hexagon storm on Saturn -- a hurricane about 20,000 miles in ...

Astronomers Turn Up the Heavy Metal to Shed Light on Star Formation

Oct. 6, 2020 — Astronomers have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the dawn of time to today. Using a new algorithm to model the energy and wavelengths of light coming from almost 7000 ...
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First Study With CHEOPS Data Describes One of the Most Extreme Planets in the Universe

Sep. 28, 2020 — CHEOPS keeps its promise: Observations with the space telescope reveal details of the exoplanet WASP-189b - one of the most extreme planets ...

Pair of Massive Baby Stars Swaddled in Salty Water Vapor

Sep. 25, 2020 — Astronomers spotted a pair of massive baby stars growing in salty cosmic soup. Each star is shrouded by a gaseous disk which includes molecules of sodium chloride, commonly known as table salt, and ...

Remnants of an Ancient Asteroid Shed New Light on the Early Solar System

Sep. 25, 2020 — Researchers have shaken up a once accepted timeline for cataclysmic events in the early solar system. Geological and geochemical records indicate that the Earth-Moon system experienced a period of ...

Solving the Strange Storms on Jupiter

Sep. 24, 2020 — Geometric storm patterns on Jupiter's south pole have been a mystery to scientists, but researchers may have uncovered how they ...

Young Physicist 'Squares the Numbers' on Time Travel

Sep. 24, 2020 — Paradox-free time travel is theoretically possible, according to the mathematical modelling of an undergraduate ...

Centuries-Old Conjecture About Formation of the Solar System Verified

Sep. 23, 2020 — Using a limited set of mathematical equations, a mathematical sciences professor said he has confirmed a 224-year-old math conjecture about the origins of our solar system, providing insights about ...

Shadow of Black Hole in M87 Galaxy Is Wobbling and Has Been for a While

Sep. 23, 2020 — A new analysis reveals the behavior of the supermassive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy across multiple years, indicating the crescent-like shadow feature appears to be ...

Water on Exoplanet Cloud Tops Could Be Found With Hi-Tech Instrumentation

Sep. 22, 2020 — Astronomers have shown that water vapor can potentially be detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets by peering literally over the tops of their impenetrable ...
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Comet Discovered to Have Its Own Northern Lights

Sep. 21, 2020 — Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has its own far-ultraviolet aurora, data reveal. It is the first time such electromagnetic emissions in the far-ultraviolet have been documented on a celestial object ...

Astronomers Discover an Earth-Sized 'Pi Planet' With a 3.14-Day Orbit

Sep. 21, 2020 — Scientists have discovered a 'pi Earth' -- an Earth-sized planet that zips around its star every 3.14 days, in an orbit reminiscent of the universal mathematics ...

Venus' Ancient Layered, Folded Rocks Point to Volcanic Origin

Sep. 17, 2020 — Researchers has found that some of the oldest terrain on Venus, known as tesserae, have layering that seems consistent with volcanic activity. The finding could provide insights into the enigmatic ...

Can Life Survive a Star's Death? Webb Telescope Can Reveal the Answer

Sep. 16, 2020 — When stars like our sun die, all that remains is an exposed core -- a white dwarf. A planet orbiting a white dwarf presents a promising opportunity to determine if life can survive the death of its ...

Enormous Planet Quickly Orbiting a Tiny, Dying Star

Sep. 16, 2020 — Thanks to a bevy of telescopes in space and on Earth -- and even a pair of amateur astronomers in Arizona -- astronomers have discovered a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting at breakneck speed around a ...

Scientist Searches for Stellar Phosphorus to Find Potentially Habitable Exoplanets

Sep. 16, 2020 — A scientist has identified stellar phosphorus as a probable marker in narrowing the search for life in the cosmos. She has developed techniques to identify stars likely to host exoplanets, based on ...

Device Could Help Detect Signs of Extraterrestrial Life

Sep. 16, 2020 — Although Earth is uniquely situated in the solar system to support creatures that call it home, different forms of life could have once existed, or might still exist, on other planets. But finding ...

From Star to Solar System: How Protoplanetary Rings Form in Primordial Gas Clouds

Sep. 15, 2020 — The star HL Tauri is glowing at the center of a system of concentric rings made from gas and dust and producing planets, one for each gap in the ring. Its discovery has shaken solar system origin ...

Elements of Surprise: Neutron Stars Contribute Little, but Something's Making Gold

Sep. 15, 2020 — Neutron star collisions do not create the quantity of chemical elements previously assumed, a new analysis of galaxy evolution finds. The research also reveals that current models can't explain ...
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Possible Marker of Life Spotted on Venus

Sep. 14, 2020 — Astronomers have discovered a rare molecule -- phosphine -- in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially or by microbes that thrive in oxygen-free environments. Astronomers ...

Carbon-Rich Exoplanets May Be Made of Diamonds

Sep. 11, 2020 — Astronomers have determined that some carbon-rich exoplanets, given the right circumstances, could be made of diamonds and ...
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New Hubble Data Suggests There Is an Ingredient Missing from Current Dark Matter Theories

Sep. 10, 2020 — Recent observations have found that something may be missing from the theories of how dark matter behaves. This missing ingredient may explain why researchers have uncovered an unexpected discrepancy ...
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