Astronomers Capture Magnetic Fields Around Massive Black Hole
New images of magnetic fields and polarization around a black hole 55 million light years away confirm theories about the astronomical wonders.
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Space Doll
A prominent astronomer who claims American Girl Brands misappropriated aspects of their physical appearance and identity for a space-themed doll without consent may pursue their Lanham Act claims against the company, a federal court in Wisconsin ruled, finding consumers could be confused about whether the astronomer endorsed or is somehow connected with the doll.
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Astronomers Probe Mysteries of ‘Super Puff’ Planet
Gas giant planets need much less core mass than previously thought to create the immense gas envelope surrounding it.
Read moreStellar Flares Can Reduce Planet Habitability
(CN) — Learning more about stellar flares could be key to determining the habitability of exoplanets, researches said in a
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Astronomers Observe Galactic Collisions From Young Universe
Astronomers have been able to peer back in time — 7 billion years back — to see gigantic collisions of galaxy clusters, in the form of radio waves picked up by a low-frequency radio telescope here on Earth.
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Moon’s Magnetic Field, Now Gone, Likely Shielded Early Earth
Like a protective sibling, the moon shielded a nascent Earth from the ravages of space with its magnetic field — a power that has long since disappeared.
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Astronomers Observe Final Scream of Star Swallowed by Black Hole
Astronomers caught a rare glimpse into the last moments of a dying star before it was ripped apart by a supermassive black hole.
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Findings From Sample-Collecting Mission Reveal Asteroid’s Complex History
Samples taken from an asteroid rotating like a child’s top across our solar system will be collected by a NASA spacecraft later this month and will arrive on Earth in 2023. The asteroid, cosmically speaking, may not be far behind, and could collide with our planet within 200 years.
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Mars at Its Biggest and Brightest Until 2035
Astronomers around the world watch and wait in anticipation as Mars puts on a show this month, complete with its closest approach to Earth and a dueling dance with the sun.
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With New Space Telescope, Astronomers Find One of the Most Extreme Planets in Universe
A European space telescope designed to gather information on planets beyond our solar system has uncovered the secrets of one such planet, revealing on Monday an extreme world with a permanent day and night side and surface temperatures hot enough to melt iron.
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Astronomers See Possible Hints of Life in Venus’ Clouds
Astronomers have found a potential sign of life high in the atmosphere of neighboring Venus: hints there may be bizarre microbes living in the sulfuric acid-laden clouds of the hothouse planet.
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World’s Largest Camera Moves From Broccoli to Dark Matter
What does broccoli have to do with mankind’s understanding of dark matter, one of the universe’s greatest mysteries? Stanford University published a 3,200-megapixel picture of Romanesco broccoli on Tuesday, among the first images made to test camera sensors designed to record the night sky.
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Three-Star System Seen Tearing Apart Its Planet-Forming Disk
Astronomers have observed the first evidence that a triple star system deformed its surrounding dust rings where planets are formed, leaving the rings contorted and on a tilt. But opinions vary on what force ultimately warped the disks, according to a study released Thursday.
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Cosmic Legos: Black Holes Merge Into Never Before Seen Size
Black holes are getting stranger — even to astronomers. They’ve now detected the signal from a long ago violent collision of two black holes that created a new one of a size that had never been seen before.
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NASA Set to Prove Whether Rogue Planets Outnumber Stars
Rogue planets, celestial bodies that free-float in space without being gravitationally tethered to a sun, may be so widespread that they actually outnumber the stars in the Milky Way, according to a new theory published Friday.
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Science Foundation Discusses Funding Giant Hawaii Telescope
The National Science Foundation has launched an informal outreach to Hawaii about possible funding efforts for the stalled Thirty Meter Telescope project.
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Space Probe Reveals Dwarf Planet Ceres Is an Ocean World
With the help of NASA’s Dawn space probe, scientists have begun to unravel centuries-long mysteries of Ceres, a dwarf planet asteroid located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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Telescope Snaps Family Portrait of Two Giant Planets Around Baby Sun
Astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar to our sun until a few weeks ago, when a telescope transmitted stunning images of a planetary system 300 light-years away that may hold clues about how our galaxy formed.
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Thermonuclear Blast Sends Supernova Survivor Star Hurtling Through Galaxy
Nothing is certain in space, especially the evolution of a dying star sent careening across the cosmos.
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A Cosmic Mystery: Telescope Reveals a Massive Star Has Gone Missing
Astronomers believe a massive star within the Kinman Dwarf galaxy has disappeared, and there are two possible explanations: either the giant, unstable star has been obscured by cosmic dust, or it is the first known star to collapse into a black hole without going supernova.
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