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Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on what life is like on Earth?
Houston Chronicle· 6 days agoWhy do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on how life is on Earth? Couldn’t there be totally different kinds of life on other planets? You only know ...
How can the visible universe be 46 billion light-years in radius when the universe is only 13.8...
Astronomy Magazine· 1 day agoAstronomers widely accept that the universe formed in the Big Bang approximately 13.8 billion years...
Polarized light yields fresh insight into mysterious fast radio bursts
Ars Technica· 2 days agoAstronomers have been puzzling over the origins of mysterious fast radio bursts (FRBs) since the...
'Absolutely gutted': How a jammed door is locking astronomers out of the X-ray universe
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoXRISM could change the way we see the X-ray universe, but a jammed door presents a mighty challenge....
Edmond Halley: The man behind the comet
Astronomy Magazine· 6 days agoIf you’re an amateur astronomer of a certain age, you’ll remember where you were in the winter of 1985–86, when Halley’s Comet passed Earth. Shivering...
Stellar Fireworks: Hubble Revisits a Strange Star’s 40-Year Nova Mystery
SciTechDaily· 11 hours agoOne of the strangest of these events happened in 1975, when a nova called HM Sagittae grew 250 times...
NASA, Global Astronomers Await Rare Nova Explosion - NASA
NASA· 7 days agoAround the world this summer, professional and amateur astronomers alike will be fixed on one small...
JWST Spots Asteroid Collision In Another Star System
IFLScience· 3 days agoTwenty years ago, astronomers used the Spitzer telescope to study Beta Pictoris, a star 63 light-years away. Researchers back then saw a significant...
A strange intermittent radio signal from space has astronomers puzzled
The Raw Story· 7 days agoWhen astronomers turn our radio telescopes out towards space, we sometimes detect sporadic bursts of...
NASA's Hubble Finds Surprises Around a Star That E | Newswise
Newswise· 3 days agoAstronomers have used new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the retired SOFIA...