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BepiColumbo Makes its Third Flyby of Mercury, Seeing the Planet's Night Side

By Nancy Atkinson - June 22, 2023 10:28 AM UTC | Planetary Science
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Bringing the Gift of Hope to Ukrainian Kids through Astronomy

By Matthew Williams - June 21, 2023 08:15 PM UTC | Site News
Through education, virtual tours, and outreach programs, Earthlings Hub is inspiring Ukrainians orphans and refugees to reach for the stars!
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The Most Intense Lightning Ever Seen Came From Last Year's Tonga Volcano Eruption

By Nancy Atkinson - June 21, 2023 04:37 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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Parker Solar Probe Makes a Surprising Discovery About the Source of the Geminid Meteor Shower

By Brian Koberlein - June 21, 2023 04:09 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy
NASA's Parker Solar Probe happened to follow a trajectory that brought it close to a cloud of gas and dust that surrounds the Sun. The spacecraft gathered evidence that indicates the Geminids were formed by a sudden, powerful event, like a collision between asteroids.
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A New Mission Will Grab Dead Satellites and Push Them Into the Atmosphere to Burn Up

By Andy Tomaswick - June 21, 2023 02:03 PM UTC | Missions
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Astronomers Find a White Dwarf Pulsar

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 20, 2023 04:39 PM UTC | Stars
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JWST Glimpses the Cosmic Dawn of the Universe

By Matthew Williams - June 20, 2023 04:30 PM UTC | Cosmology
Thanks to the JWST, galaxies that existed during the Cosmic Dawn have been observed for the first time!
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The Suspense is Killing Us. The Next Planet in the TRAPPIST System Gets the JWST Treatment

By Nancy Atkinson - June 20, 2023 03:14 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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An Unfortunate Planet is Undergoing "Extreme Evaporation," Melting Under the Extreme Heat From its Star

By Brian Koberlein - June 20, 2023 02:12 PM UTC | Exoplanets
Astronomers have known something strange is happening at the star FU Ori for decades. The star brightened dramatically about 85 years ago, releasing a flare that's a trillion times brighter than anything the Sun can generate, and it hasn't dimmed back down the way everyone was expecting.
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Can We Predict if a System Will Have Giant Planets?

By Andy Tomaswick - June 19, 2023 03:56 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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The Evidence is Building that Dark Matter is Made of Axions

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 19, 2023 03:46 PM UTC | Physics
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Astronomers Have Never Detected Merging Supermassive Black Holes. That Might Be About to Change

By Brian Koberlein - June 19, 2023 12:24 PM UTC | Black Holes
A new study suggests that pulsars could act as natural gravitational wave sensors, setting limits on supermassive black hole mergers or even detecting them.
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Even Though They're Bigger, Generation 2 Starlinks are Fainter than Gen 1

By Andy Tomaswick - June 19, 2023 12:18 PM UTC | Site News
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Astronomers See the Same Supernova Four Times Thanks to a Gravitational Lens

By Matthew Williams - June 18, 2023 08:05 PM UTC | Extragalactic
Thanks to a well-placed gravitational lens, a team of astronomers was able to observe a supernova four times!
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The Best Particle Collider in the World? The Sun

By Paul Sutter - June 17, 2023 10:21 PM UTC | Solar Astronomy
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We Could See the Glint off Giant Cities on Alien Worlds

By sjohnston - June 17, 2023 09:52 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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JWST is Powerful Enough to See a Variety of Biosignatures in Exoplanets

By Brian Koberlein - June 17, 2023 11:52 AM UTC | Exoplanets
According to a new study, JWST is powerful enough to detect the chemicals in the atmospheres of various terrestrial planets and could give a hint if there's life there.
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The Hidden Benefits of Large Science Projects

By Paul Sutter - June 16, 2023 10:21 PM UTC | Site News
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This Hot Jupiter is Leaving a Swirling Tail of Helium in its Wake

By Laurence Tognetti, MSc - June 16, 2023 09:14 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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Earth Might Have Formed in Just a Few Million Years

By Evan Gough - June 16, 2023 03:11 PM UTC | Planetary Science
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