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‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ explosion will bring a new star to the night sky
CNN via AOL· 3 hours agoAstronomers are anticipating the appearance of a “new star” triggered by an explosive event that...
Astronomers Should Take a Deeper Look at Naming
Scientific American· 8 hours agoIn 2002 then NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe announced that the upcoming Next Generation Space Telescope, the pride of the agency and a promise of...
Astronomers Spot Cataclysmic Collision of Giant Asteroids in Nearby Star System
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 22 hours agoNearly 20 years ago, astronomers observed a massive cloud of fine dust particles around a young star...
Polarized light yields fresh insight into mysterious fast radio bursts
Ars Technica· 3 hours agoAstronomers have been puzzling over the origins of mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) since the...
7 potential 'alien megastructures' spotted in our galaxy are not what they seem
LiveScience· 22 hours agoA team of astronomers combed through a collection of odd stars that are candidates for Dyson spheres — artificial constructs designed by aliens to leech energy from stars.
Astronomers detect evidence of possible asteroid collisions in ‘teenage’ solar system
Courthouse News Service· 2 days agoThe lead scientist on the study, John Hopkins astronomer Christine Chen, said she and her team made...
A mysterious Jupiter-sized planet that shouldn't exist is as puffy as a marshmallow and astronomers...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBased on this discrepancy, astronomers didn't know how a planet like WASP 107b could exist. But now,...
Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on what life is like on Earth?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIf you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com....
Scientists spot massive asteroid collision — in another solar system
Mashable· 10 hours agoBeta Pictoris is known to have two gas giant planets, and is seen as a place where rocky worlds...
JWST Spots Asteroid Collision In Another Star System
IFLScience· 1 day agoTwenty years ago, astronomers used the Spitzer telescope to study Beta Pictoris, a star 63 light-years away. Researchers back then saw a significant...