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‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ explosion will bring a new star to the night sky
CNN via AOL· 8 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· 13 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· 1 day 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· 8 hours agoAstronomers have been puzzling over the origins of mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) since the...
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,...
7 potential 'alien megastructures' spotted in our galaxy are not what they seem
LiveScience· 1 day 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.
'Supernova discovery machine' James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant star explosion on record
SPACE.com· 3 hours agoNot only is this 10 times more supernovas than have been uncovered before in such early cosmic history, but the sample also includes the earliest and furthest supernova ever seen. Data from ...
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...
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....
Sharp-eyed Telescope Tracks Satellites During Daylight
IEEE Spectrum· 1 day agoThe technique employs a custom-built telescope assembled from commercially available components. In...