Floating in a stream of young stars, astronomers have discovered a trinity of similar neighboring planets like Earth orbiting a very new version of our own sun. The team discovered a young, warmer world using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.TESS), According to a new study in The Astronomical …
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On January 2, 2021, Earth is near Sun: In its elliptical orbit more than any other day of the year marking the annual event known as the Perihelion. The word perihilian is translated from the ancient Greek, meaning “close to the sun”. According to Earthsyki, the Earth’s perihelion was expected …
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The only total solar eclipse Comes this week of the year. On Monday, December 14, lucky skyscrapers will get a chance to see the spectacular celestial event, when the new moon completely obstructs the sun, creating temporary darkness while NASA says “one of nature’s most terrifying inspirational places.” When the …
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Late last year, the sun began a new cycle of activity. It started slowly, but there were a handful of sunspots in early 2020. Conveniently, Daniel K. Innoye Solar Telescope (or DKIST) began operations in the same period. And when you take a 4-meter telescope to the top of the …
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Traces of a rare molecule known as phosphine have been found in Venus’s hellish, highly acidic atmosphere, astronomers announced Monday – providing a boring clue about the possibility of life. The phosphine molecules found on Earth are primarily the result of the action of microorganisms that thrive in human industry …
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