Astronomers using new technology may not only have found a super-Earth to a neighboring star, but they may have imagined it directly. And it can be nice and cozy in the livable area around Alpha Centauri. It is much easier to see giant planets than Earth-sized planets. No matter which …
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About 800 years ago in 1226 the two planets were visually “arranged” in the night sky. It was a coincidence of Jupiter and Saturn. In a rare event, they appeared very close together with one-half of the apparent width of the moon. This happened on March 4, 1226 – just …
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In April 1990, our universe opened up to us in a whole new way. At the same time that the Hubble Space Telescope was launched and deployed, the most powerful space telescope ever was built. Although the tool started out with difficulty, Hubble has been in operation for a full …
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NASA’s Hubble Telescope provides 14 years of data on the Exoplanet HD 106906B. It exhibits strange behavior in its orbit 336 light-years from Earth. Scientists believe that data from exoplanets could explain what happened to the potentially hidden planet Nine in our solar system. How many planets are there in …
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The world’s second-largest radio telescope crashed on Tuesday morning. The Arecibo Observatory’s 900-ton platform, which sent and received radio waves and suspended 450 feet (140 meters) in the air, crashed into a 1,000-foot (300-meter wide) disc below. When it fell, it pulled down along the tops of the three surrounding …
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