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Sharp-eyed Telescope Tracks Satellites During Daylight
IEEE Spectrum· 2 days agoThe technique employs a custom-built telescope assembled from commercially available components. In...
Scientists find slowest spinning 'radio neutron star' — it breaks all the dead-star rules
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA half purple half blue glowing sphere. Astronomers have discovered the slowest spinning radio...
James Webb Space Telescope spots asteroid collision in neighboring star system
Space via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoThe James Webb Space Telescope has seen signs of a violent asteroid collision in neighboring star...
Recent Cosmic Collision Shakes Up Milky Way History
Gizmodo· 6 days agoEvidence of the Milky Way’s past is encoded in wrinkles of stars, whose positions and movements have shifted as our galaxy has interacted with other...
Unusual space signals detected in Western Australia upend what we know about neutron stars
Cosmos· 7 days agoAstronomers in Australia have observed a neutron star spinning more slowly than any other previously...
Goodbye Vulcan: Real-life Star Trek exoplanet doesn’t exist
EarthSky· 3 days agoHD 26965 b, also nicknamed Vulcan after the famous planet in the Star Trek franchise, was thought to...
Mysterious Origins: Polarized Light Transforms Our Understanding of Fast Radio Bursts
SciTechDaily· 18 hours agoThis finding contrasts with earlier studies which suggested that repeating FRBs come from highly...
Will the northern lights be visible this week from New Jersey? What to know
The Record· 6 days agoAstronomers have reported that a sunspot will be facing Earth from June 4-6, although no strong...
Physicist's gravity revelation may finish 'endless search' for dark matter
Newsweek· 18 hours agoDark matter is a hypothetical form of matter, thought to account for 80 percent of the matter in the...
Mysterious "Phoenix" world challenges theories of planetary evolution
Newsweek· 2 days agoAstronomers have discovered an unusual exoplanet that has managed to retain its atmosphere despite intense nearby radiation from a giant red star. Researchers at Johns Hopkins ...