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MIT astronomers have discovered a new multiplanetary system located 10 parsecs, or about 33 light years, from Earth, making it one of the closest known multiplanetary systems to our system. The star at the system's core likely hosts at…

The next time you look at a bright full moon, think about this: no one knows exactly where the moon came from. "We have no idea why the moon is here," science writer Rebecca Boyle said on Inexplicable - Vox's podcast that explores big…

An unusual blue-tinted asteroid likely got its signature color from intense sunlight, new research finds, solving a decades-old mystery.The blue color of the asteroid Phaeton has puzzled scientists since the space rock was discovered in…

A unique planetary alignment that won't happen again for nearly two decades has formed in the night sky, and while it's visible until late June, it can be difficult to see and require considerable sleep loss. . (Photo: Photo credit…

A new study of an old meteorite contradicts current thinking about how rocky planets like Earth and Mars acquire volatile elements such as hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and noble gases during…

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has released new research from astronomers and academics that focuses on a new multiplanetary system similar to our galaxy's solar system. The new system has!--?xml>…

Parliament Arts Organization King Street Jam The Parliament Arts Organization will host the King Street Jam, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday, in the Royal Square area of ​​York city centre. Nationally acclaimed musicians will play…

A new study indicates that 44% of Earth's land surface needs conservation attention to stop the rampant destruction of the natural world.This figure is significantly higher than the target currently under discussion as part of the…

BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency has released a wealth of data on nearly 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia mission in a bid to create the most accurate and comprehensive map of our galaxy.Astronomers hope to use…

(Photo by jody amiet / AFP)Everyone is excited about satellites, but what kind of satellite really matters to them? Can a satellite network improve use cases around the world?Satellites have been around for over half a century…

A fifth of an ounce of dark spots brought to Earth from an asteroid by a Japanese spacecraft are among the most pristine bits of a baby solar system ever studied, scientists said Thursday. This fact should help planetary…

A team led by astronomers from UC Berkeley has for the first time discovered what they believe to be a floating black hole located between 2,280 and 6,260 light-years from Earth.This is an incredibly rare discovery, since black holes are…

In April I wrote that you could observe four planets online. Well,…

A fifth of an ounce of dark spots brought to Earth from an asteroid by a Japanese spacecraft are among the most pristine bits of a baby solar system ever studied, scientists said Thursday.This fact should help planetary scientists refine…

Sunday June 12The Moon occults or passes in front of Dschubba of 2nd magnitude (Delta Scorpii) tonight, visible to observers in eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. Our satellite rises before sunset; as the sky darkens,…

Okavango Delta A new tool from Google Earth Engine and the nonprofit World Resources Institute extracts satellite data to create detailed maps in near real time. Called Dynamic World, it zooms in on the planet in 10 by…

Asteroids and comets represent the material that remained after the formation of planets orbiting the Sun. Such bodies would have originally formed in a vast disk of gas and dust (protosolar nebula) around what would become the…

Senior Public Education Officer at the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), Ava Tomlinson (third from right), hosts a birding session with teachers from 20!-->…

ITV Studios buys British natural history producer Plimsoll Productions, Variety can reveal. Although the acquisition is not yet closed, sources indicate that it should be finalized within the next two days. The deal, which sees ITV…

Artist's impression of the extrasolar object, which passed close to the Sun in 2017 (ESA/Hubble, NASA, ESO, M. Kornme)The European Space Agency approved the construction of Comet Mission Interceptor, a small spacecraft designed to fly close…

This month, early risers in Canada might see five planets lined up in the eastern sky: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. "You will see several bright objects in a row if you look east before sunrise," astrophysicist…

New data shows that a comet discovered in 2014 is in the record books. This icy object, dubbed Bernardinelli-Bernstein, is the largest comet ever spotted. Comets are pieces of rock and ice that orbit the sun. These "dirty…

NASA will launch a mission that will both pass Venus and descend through its hostile atmosphere in 2029.…

There is no doubt that young solar systems are chaotic places. Cascading collisions defined our young solar system when rocks, boulders, and planetesimals repeatedly collided.A new study based on pieces of asteroids that crashed into…

Nine students from Maui participated in the University of Hawaii's HI STAR program to nurture interest in what exists in the universe and encourage careers in STEM. Photo Courtesy: UH Maui College King Kekaulike High School student…

Meet Ross 508b: Scientists discover a 'SUPER EARTH' exoplanet four times larger than our own planet orbiting a star 36.5 light years awayA new "super Earth" four times larger than our own planet has been spottedThe exoplanet,…

Sunday June 5Saturn stands still against a backdrop of Capricorn stars at 10:00 a.m. EDT. The ringed planet is currently prominent in the pre-dawn sky, shining at magnitude 0.6 in the upper left (northeast) corner of Deneb Algedi. But…

There is no doubt that young solar systems are chaotic places. Cascading collisions defined our young solar system when rocks, boulders, and planetesimals repeatedly collided. A new study based on pieces of asteroids that crashed into…

"Where are all the Trojans" is a valid question in both the study of ancient history and the study of exoplanets. Trojan bodies, which share orbital paths with other larger planets, are widespread in our solar system - most obviously in…

M87 is another elliptical Messier galaxy in the Virgo cluster, 55 million light-years distant and some 120,000 light-years wide. It lies about 3½° northwest of Rho Virginis. But M87 surpasses M84 and M86 in terms of mass: it has at least…

A proposed Chinese mission would search for potentially habitable alien worlds nearby by launching a spacecraft to take ultra-precise measurements of how orbiting planets wobble a star.For this mission, called the Closeby Habitable…

If the solar system is only 4.6 billion years old but the universe has been around for 13.8 billion years, isn't it likely that other forms of life existed long before us in the universe? Bob Spangler Fruita, Colorado With…

When is a bee a fish? California Court of Appeals Finds Invertebrates May Be Protected Under California Endangered Species Act Bees are fish! And…

A very strange meteorite discovered in western Egypt in 1996 may contain tiny bits of debris from a supernova, and not just any supernova, but a supernova created by the explosion of a white dwarf, the remnant core of a…

They are trapped.Two swarms of curious and diverse space rocks – called Trojan asteroids – are constantly traveling around the sun, one in front of the gas giant Jupiter and the other behind. Jupiter and the Sun's gravity have combined to…

Although Pluto lost its "Planet Nine" status when it was downgraded to a dwarf planet, there is ample evidence that our solar system had or currently has a major planet far beyond Pluto that may one day claim dominance.…

OWhen I had the idea to write my first book, Zero altitudee – and tempt, as The Independentfrom the travel editor, not to fly for a year - the world was on a stubborn path from which there was seemingly no turning back: growth. Growth,…

This ground image of Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was taken on July 16, 2020 from the Northern Hemisphere. The inset image, taken on August 8, 2020, by the Hubble Space Telescope, reveals a close-up of the comet after passing through the Sun.…

Though rather small, Saturn's 310-mile-wide (500 km) moon Enceladus also got the star treatment in this latest 10-year report. That's partly because the Cassini mission saw plumes of liquid erupting from Enceladus in 2005. And where…

Photo taken on Nov. 17, 2021 shows the landscape of a terrestrial forest in Yuanmou County, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Humanity has only one home: Earth. But it is not ours…

3D rendering of a spacecraft approaching Jupiter Getty As many as nine robotic missions have visited the Jovian system - home to the solar system's largest planet, Jupiter - and in less than 80 years humans could…

The more I learn about the LA Rams' inside linebacker combination of veteran Bobby Wagner and sophomore linebacker Ernest Jones, the more I like it. Historically, the LA Rams had continued to devote their resources to other positions on…

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Natural resources in space worth billions, if not trillions of dollars, are on the verge of contention between the United States and China. The two superpowers are aggressively vying for dominance in space and at the center of this rivalry…

The third episode of prehistoric planet takes viewers away from the hot sands and into freshwater environments.The opening scene of "Freshwater" focuses on a trio of Velociraptor as they ambush a pterosaur, which may be a tribute to…

Neptune is the farthest planet from the sun and one of the two "ice giants" of our solar system. The cold, blue planet is about 30 times farther from the sun than Earth and takes about 165 Earth years to complete a single orbit around our…

Artistic impression of an intriguing triple star system where the third star is more massive than the combined mass of the two stars in the binary. Credit: Nora Eisner The Planet Hunters TESS citizen science project asks volunteers to!-->!-->…

The vast majority of us could only aspire, before "Lunar Reverieto get into the spirit of david bowie — the character, the artist, the terrestrial entity not yet confirmed. Eclectic, shamelessly maximalist and variously philosophical:…

A new computer simulation suggests that the dwarf planet Ceres may have been thrown by the gravity of gas giant Jupiter toward the sun during the volatile era of planet formation 4.5 billion years ago. There's always been something out of…

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On a series On 70-year-old photographic plates containing images of the night sky, a few astronomers say they found something odd: flashes of light that appear and then disappear, like ghosts.“We found an image where nine stars were there,…

In addition to observing distant stars, galaxies and exoplanets, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope will study our solar system. 1 creditthehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIlMIr5nhEThe James Webb Space Telescope will be the next…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is NASA's next major observatory; in line with the Hubble Space Telescope, the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope. JWST combines the qualities…

At dawn on Sunday, May 29, Jupiter and Mars are only 0.6 degrees (36 arc minutes) apart on the east-southeast horizon. On a flat horizon, bright Venus can be seen more than 25 degrees east of Jupiter and Mars. This is the view of London…

The exploration of habitable planets outside the solar system is one of the main frontiers of fundamental research in astronomy. The exploration of habitable planets outside the solar system is one of the main frontiers of…

NASA has requested $24 billion in funding from the US government for fiscal year 2022.  This month, legislators are discussing the request. According to The Register, the expensive budget is still over $760.2 million, a bit less than!-->!-->!-->…

An artistic illustration of exoplanets. /APC An artistic illustration of exoplanets. /APC Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the…

When you notice that faint glow of reflected sunlight in the dark sky just before dawn and after dusk, you are actually looking at the zodiacal dust cloud. Dust shrouds our inner solar system, and up to 30,000 tons of its particles drift…

A North County High School student skyrockets at the top of a national solar system research competition with a out of this world project. Dominic Alfinito won the Exploration of the Moon and Asteroids by…

When you notice that faint glow of reflected sunlight in the dark sky just before dawn and after dusk, you are actually looking at the zodiacal dust cloud. Dust shrouds our inner solar system, and up to 30,000 tons of its particles drift…

Dust is a common component of spiral galaxies. Astronomers believe this dust is carbon- or silicate-rich and no more than 0.25 microns wide. This does not greatly affect the brightness of galaxies, except in cases where they appear almost…

Keiki and other community members visit one of the booths provided by a participating organization on Saturday, May 14 during AstroDay at Prince Kūhiō Plaza in Hilo. (Photos by Nathan Christopher) At least one future astronaut, one…

Black holes are, by definition, places where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape. So they are black - dark - and impossible to imagine. To the right? As evidenced by the success of the Event Horizon telescope, we can…

The best-known asteroid to collide with Earth is the Chicxulub crater, which struck the Yucatán Peninsula 65 million years ago. It is known for having wiped out the dinosaurs, as well as three quarters of life on the planet. Other huge…

Our climate is warming rapidly and rising temperatures are impacting the physical environments that support entire ecosystems. Humans and animal species are facing daunting challenges to their survival due to climate…

First visitors Humans have seen rocks falling from the sky for thousands of years. One of the earliest potential recorded accounts dates back to 1478 BC. AD, when, according to the Chronicle of Parian, a "lightning stone" fell on the…

Jules Verne couldn't even dream of it: a research team from the University of Bayreuth, in collaboration with international partners, has pushed the limits of high-pressure and high-temperature research into cosmic dimensions. For the…

Venus is a hot, hellish world and the second planet from the sun. The Earth-sized planet could be considered our twin if not for its thick, toxic atmosphere and surface temperatures hot enough to melt lead. Despite such extremes,…

The most glorious of all globular clusters is Omega Centauri. (NGC 5139 is its more commonplace designation.) It is the 24th brightest "star" in Centaurus, which is the ninth largest of the 88 constellations. It was noted in Ptolemy's…

Sending new messages Nearly half a century after the Arecibo message, two international teams of astronomers are planning new attempts at extraterrestrial communication. One uses a giant new radio telescope and the other chooses a…

Why does Bennu spit pebbles into space? It's one of the weirdest things he does, and that's saying something. Bennu is a small asteroid just over 500 meters across. It has the shape of two cones glued together base to…

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Billions of years ago, when it first emerged from the clouds of gas and dust, the solar system was supposed to be in order. Then gravitational forces turned everything upside down.What happened in the first solar system was not exactly…

Billions of years ago, when it first emerged from the clouds of gas and dust, the solar system was supposed to be in order. Then gravitational forces turned everything upside down. What happened at the start of the…

Published: 11:00 a.m. 7 May 2022 Alan Willison, President of the Hertford Astronomy Group, continues his beginner's guide to getting started in astronomy. An astrophysicist at Bayfordbury Observatory in!-->>-->!-->>-->!-->!-->!-->…

How did the planets form? How did the solar system evolve?Teacher. LIU Beibei from Zhejiang University School of Physics, in collaboration with Professor Sean Raymond of the University of Bordeaux in France and Professor Seth Jacobson of…

They are hosting a day of sky-related events from 4-10 p.m. on Saturday, May 7, in honor of National Astronomy Day, and it will be well worth your time to sign up. The observatory is north of Maumelle Lake in far eastern Perry County,…

By Alan Sheidler People's Astronomy Club I must admit that I have always been interested in speed. The speed at which things move has always fascinated me.What is…

In the distant past, Mars was extremely volcanic. In some ways this is obvious. The Tharsis region, a little smaller than the continental United States, has 12 major volcanoes, including Olympus Mons, the largest…

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