Artist’s impression of the missing star. Image: THAT An unusually bright star in a nearby galaxy has disappeared, in a mystery of cosmic proportions. An object inside the dwarf galaxy Kinman has disappeared from view, according to new investigation published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This …
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We have long known that planets like Earth are born from disks of gas, ice, and dust that surround stars as they form. But the details are important: planets like Earth form differently than Jupiter, and where On the album they are born it makes a difference in their potential …
Read More »Astronomers Detect First Mysterious Object in ‘Massive Gap’ of Cosmic Collisions
In August last year, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations made a gravitational wave detection, the first of its kind, in what appeared to be a black hole swallowing a neutron star. Now LIGO has confirmed the event, giving it the name of GW190814. And it appears that the neutron star …
Read More »Fascinating details of Hubble’s new look The Enigmatic Knife Edge Galaxy
Image of a spiral galaxy. You are probably imagining something like Messier 34: long, spiral arms that move away from a brilliantly bright center, dotted with sparkling star clusters and dotted with dark streaks of dust. But from our point of view, galaxies can be oriented in any way, including …
Read More »Two examples of how to use observations of terrestrial planets orbiting temperate orbits around low-mass stars to test key concepts of planetary habitability
[ad_1] Terrestrial planets in temperate orbits around very low-mass stars are likely to have evolved in a very different way than planets in the solar system, and in particular Earth. However, because these are the first planets that are and will be accessible for deep characterization of the atmosphere, clouds, …
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