[ad_1] IMAGE: A diagram of the Milky Way’s two most important companion galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud or LMC (left) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) made using data from … view More Credit: ESA / Gaia / DPAC On December 3, an international team of astronomers will announce the …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: The Voyager spacecraft continues to make discoveries even as it travels through interstellar space. In a new study, physicists at the University of Iowa report on Voyager’s detection of cosmic rays … sight More Credit: NASA / JPL More than 40 years after its launch, the Voyager probe …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: Artist’s impression of the system, with the star in the center and the internal dust ribbon from which the gas is produced and dispersed outwards to the … view More Credits: Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge Astronomers have captured a unique stage in the evolution of the …
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[ad_1] On November 18, scientists from the US National Science Foundation’s National Solar Observatory predicted the arrival of a large sunspot just in time for Thanksgiving. Using a special technique called heliosismology, the team ‘listened to’ the change in sound waves from within the Sun that invite the arrival of …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: Magellanic clouds above Bromo Semeru Tengger National Park, Java, Indonesia view More Credit: Gilbert Vancell- gvancell.com The spiral-shaped disc of stars and planets is pulled, twisted and deformed with extreme violence by the gravitational force of a smaller galaxy: the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Scientists believe that the …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: Illustration of a young radio jet launched from a supermassive black hole in the center of a distant galaxy. View More Credit: (National Radio Astronomy Observatory Photo Illustration, Credit: Sophia Dagnello, NRAO / AUI / NSF) WASHINGTON – Researchers from the US Naval Research Laboratory have led a …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: Representation of the orbit of the star 232121.57-160505.4 in the galactocentric Cartesian frame, color coded according to the time. The white dot represents the current position of the star. The sight More Credit: Cordoni et al Theories about how the Milky Way formed will be rewritten following discoveries …
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[ad_1] IMAGE: An artist’s conception of HD 209458 b, an exoplanet whose atmosphere is torn away at more than 35,000 km / hour by the radiation of its nearby parent star. This hot view More Credits: NASA / European Space Agency / Alfred Vidal-Madjar (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, CNRS) Fast …
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