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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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Pulsars Could Help Map the Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way

By Matthew Williams - June 15, 2023 04:50 PM UTC | Milky Way
The BlackHoleCam project, part of the Event Horizon Telescope consortium, will use the powerful EHT array to search for pulsars near Sagittarius A*
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A Planet So Hot Its Atmosphere Contains the Raw Material for Rocks

By Carolyn Collins Petersen - June 15, 2023 04:45 PM UTC | Exoplanets
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How Science Fiction Sparked Our Flights to the Final Frontier

By Alan Boyle - June 15, 2023 02:52 PM UTC | Space Exploration
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Did Life Need Plate Tectonics to Emerge?

By Evan Gough - June 15, 2023 01:14 PM UTC | Astrobiology
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Startup PLD Space to Launch Europe's First Reusable Rocket

By David Dickinson - June 15, 2023 10:57 AM UTC | Space Exploration
PLD Space could launch its suborbital Miura-1 rocket this month.
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