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NASA is putting an 'artificial star' in orbit around Earth
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 day agoHow Landolt could revolutionize astronomy Astronomers are excited that Landolt could help them find...
Could nearby stars have habitable exoplanets? NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory hopes to find out
Space via Yahoo News· 4 days agoWhile only some of the 57 stars have known habitable exoplanets, there are likely many more...
To calibrate telescopes on Earth, NASA's launching an 'artificial star' to orbit
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFor instance, stellar dynamics like these help us measure the universe's age and how quickly it has...
Look Out Hubble And Webb, Here Comes Roman
PhotonicsOnline· 15 hours agoThe Nancy Grace Roman Telescope is set to launch by May 2027. Nancy Grace Roman, Ph.D., passed away in Germantown, MD, on December 25, 2018, after a long illness at 93. Roman was, according ...
Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAstronomers have been scouring the outer solar system for signs of a hypothetical ninth planet for...
Life after stellar death? How life could arise on planets orbiting white dwarfs
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoStellar death need not be the end for orbiting planets, which could see their ice melt as they move...
James Webb telescope reveals long-studied baby star is actually 'twins' — and they're throwing...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoNew observations from the James Webb Space Telescope revealed that a distant protostar is actually a...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 2 days agoThis rocky Venus-sized world transits a red dwarf star, offering astronomers the rare opportunity to study whether such planets can retain their atmospheres and potentially ...
Watery planets orbiting dead stars may be good candidates for studying life -- if they can survive...
Science Daily· 7 days agoA new study of the dynamics of white dwarf systems suggests that, in theory, some watery planets may indeed thread the celestial needles necessary to await discovery and closer scrutiny. < ...
