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Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on what life is like on Earth?
Arizona Daily Sun· 3 days agoYou only know the obvious hiding spots: under the bed, in the closet, behind the couch. The trick is...
Vulcan Vanishes: Real-Life Star Trek Planet Turns Out To Be Stellar Illusion
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoNew research refutes the existence of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit 40 Eridani A, attributing detected signals to the star’s surface activity. A planet thought to orbit the star 40 Eridani ...
Rogue planets may originate from 'twisted Tatooine' double star systems
SPACE.com· 3 days agoStar Wars fans will definitely get a kick out of binary star systems nicknamed "Tatooine" systems —...
NASA’s Webb Maps Weather on Planet 280 Light-Years Away | Newswise: News for Journalists
Newswise· 7 days agoSometimes not finding something is just as exciting and useful as finding it. Take hot Jupiter WASP-43 b, for example. This tidally locked world has a searing hot permanent dayside and a somewhat ...
New Webb image isn't just stunning. It shattered a record.
Mashable· 5 days agoThe James Webb Space Telescope — with a giant mirror that catches extremely faint light, along with its ability to view a type of light (infrared) that can pass through huge clouds of cosmic ...
With new, sharper optics, Arizona telescope captures rare images of Jupiter's moon Io - Berkeley...
UC Berkeley NewsCenter· 7 days agoSince 1979, when Jupiter’s moon Io was found to be pockmarked with volcanoes, astronomers and...
Extraordinarily bright galaxy breaks the record for most distant celestial object ever observed
TechSpot· 6 days agoWhere no man has gone before: The James Webb Space Telescope continues to dazzle astronomers and the public with unprecedented views of our universe. Today was no exception when scientists revealed ...
Morton Mandan Public Library hosting NASA exhibit
The Bismarck Tribune· 6 days agoMorton Mandan Public Library will host the "Discover Exoplanets: The Search for Alien Worlds" exhibit beginning Tuesday.
Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on what life is like on Earth?
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 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 the obvious hiding ...
Astronomy 5/30/24
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 7 days agoBob Berman and Dr. Valerie Rapson join us to discuss recent astronomy news and answer your questions. Dr. Valerie Rapson is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at SUNY Oneonta. Dr ...
