If you haven’t seen Comet NEOWISE yet, time is running out. Although the comet will be closer to Earth tonight (Thursday night), it is actually already weaker than last week because it has been away from the sun since the beginning of the month. It is still visible to the …
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In a former exoplanetary, astronomers have directly photographed two giant planets orbiting a star that is a virtual twin of the Sun, albeit much younger. The star is called TYC 8998-760-1 (after its identification number in Tycho’s catalog), and it’s about 310 light years away in the constellation Musca. It …
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When we look at intergalactic space, evidence for dark matter is everywhere. It is in the rotation of galaxies, which cannot be explained by observable matter alone. It is in the way galaxies cluster together and the path of light as it travels through the Universe. We can’t see dark …
Read More »Part of the new image, which shows the star (top left) and the giant exoplanet.Image: ESO / Bohn et al. This first of its kind The image reveals a star system just 300 light years from Earth. That It was captured by the Very Large Telescope (VLT), which is managed …
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Researchers have found evidence of a star coming out of its orbit with another star in a “partial supernova”, which is now hurtling through the Milky Way. The star, which has about 40 percent of the mass of our sun, travels at 559,234 mph. Scientists from the University of Warwick …
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