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Stars and Planets Grow Up Together as Siblings

Oct. 23, 2020 — ALMA shows rings around the still-growing proto-star IRS ...

Galactic Archaeology

Oct. 22, 2020 — Computational astrophysics study modeled for the first time faint supernovae of metal-free first stars, yielding carbon-enhanced abundance patterns for star formation. Study investigated formation of ...

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Smile, Wave: Some Exoplanets May Be Able to See Us, Too

Oct. 21, 2020 — Three decades after astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that Voyager 1 snap Earth's picture from billions of miles away -- resulting in the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph - two ...

Evidence of Broadside Collision With Dwarf Galaxy Discovered in Milky Way

Oct. 20, 2020 — Astrophysicists have discovered a series of telltale shell-like formations of stars in the vicinity of the Virgo constellation, evidence of a radial merger between a dwarf galaxy and the Milky Way, ...

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AI and Photonics Join Forces to Make It Easier to Find 'New Earths'

Oct. 21, 2020 — By combining photonics with artificial intelligence, scientists have developed a sensor that will help decipher the 'twinkle' of stars and allow for Earth-based exploration of planets around distant ...

Astrophysics Team Lights the Way for More Accurate Model of the Universe

Oct. 19, 2020 — Scientists demonstrated the first use of a method called self-calibration to remove contamination from gravitational lensing signals. The results should lead to more accurate cosmological models of ...

The Milky Way Galaxy Has a Clumpy Halo

Oct. 19, 2020 — Astronomers at the University of Iowa have determined our galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot gases that is continually being supplied with material ejected by birthing or dying stars. The ...

Two Planets Around a Red Dwarf

Oct. 16, 2020 — Astronomers have detected two exoplanets orbiting the star TOI-1266. The telescope thus demonstrates its high precision and takes an important step in the quest of finding potentially habitable ...

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Magnetic Fields on the Moon Are the Remnant of an Ancient Core Dynamo

Oct. 15, 2020 — A long discussed theory about the local magnetic spots of the moon suggests that they are the result of magnetization processes caused by impacts of massive bodies on the ...

Anemic Star Cluster Breaks Metal-Poor Record

Oct. 15, 2020 — In a surprising discovery, astronomers have found a star cluster in the Andromeda Galaxy that contains a record-breaking low amount of metals, calling into question the so-called 'metallicity-floor' ...

Star Clusters Are Only the Tip of the Iceberg

Oct. 15, 2020 — Star clusters have been part of the Imaginarium of human civilization for millennia. The brightest star clusters to Earth, like the Pleiades, are readily visible to the naked eye. A team around ...

NASA's James Webb Telescopes Will Reveal Hidden Galaxies

Oct. 15, 2020 — Simulations show it's possible to distinguish host galaxy from quasars, although still challenging due to the galaxy's small size on the ...

The Mountains of Pluto Are Snowcapped, but Not for the Same Reasons as on Earth

Oct. 13, 2020 — In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such ...

The Black Hole Always Chirps Twice: New Clues Deciphering the Shape of Black Holes

Oct. 8, 2020 — Gravitational-wave scientists reveal that when two black holes collide and merge, the remnant black hole 'chirps' not once, but multiple times, ...