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Astronomers Discover Long-Studied Star Is Actually Two Stars
ExtremeTech· 6 days agoAstronomers thought they had a good handle on a star called WL20, which sits some 400 light-years away in the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud complex. Then, NASA and the National Radio Astronomy ...
Explained: How Did Saturn Get Its Rings?
ExtremeTech· 11 hours agoNothing else in the Solar System is quite like Saturn. Four of our planets have rings, but Saturn's are enormous and complex, in a class of their own. Just after the turn of the 17th century ...
'Immortal' stars at the Milky Way's center may have found an endless energy source, study suggests
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoStrange stars clustered near the Milky Way's center are much younger than theory predicts is...
NASA is putting an 'artificial star' in orbit around Earth
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The Inside Story of How an Interstellar Jam Session Came to the Las Vegas Sphere
Smithsonian Magazine· 4 days agoA new collaboration between the Smithsonian and Grateful Dead drummer (who now tours with Dead and...
Sternentstehung: Ein junger Doppelstern mit parallelen Gasstrahlen
Weston Forum· 5 days agoIm Umfeld von Rho Ophiuchi zeigt ein junges Doppelsternsystem Ungewöhnliches: Beide Sterne stoßen parallele Gasstrahlen aus
Look Out Hubble And Webb, Here Comes Roman
PhotonicsOnline· 6 days 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 ...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 7 days agoThe 100 meter-tall rocket on the launch pad for Artemis 1 is among the largest ever built, but it’s only the tip of the iceberg—the eye-catching evidence of much broader activity below the surface ...
Life after stellar death? How life could arise on planets orbiting white dwarfs
SPACE.com· 6 days agoStars do not survive forever, the sun included. In about five billion years, Earth's star will begin...
Gateway - Jalopnik
Jalopnik· 6 days agoAfter four launch attempts over two months, the most powerful rocket ever built by NASA successfully launched just last week. Good things are now coming to those who waited: The mission is going ...
