The answers to many questions in astronomy are hidden behind the veil of deep time. One of those questions is about the role that supernovae played in the early Universe. The job of the first supernovae was to forge the heaviest elements that were not forged in the Big Bang. …
Read More »Astronomers detect a planet unlike any we’ve seen before orbiting a distant star
About 730 light years away, around a star that closely resembles our Sun, astronomers have found a really strange exoplanet. It is only slightly smaller than Neptune, which could indicate a gaseous planet … but it is more than twice as massive as Neptune, with a density comparable to Earth …
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