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'Once-in-a-lifetime event': Explosion in space to look like new star, NASA says
USA Today· 8 hours agoThe "star" is an explosion, also known as a nova event, that happens around once every 80 years. It...
Einstein Telescope Launches New Era In Astronomy
PhotonicsOnline· 2 days agoIt’s still just a plan, but a new telescope could soon be measuring gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are something like the sound waves of the universe. The future ...
James Webb Space Telescope spots asteroid collision in neighboring star system
Space via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe James Webb Space Telescope has seen signs of a violent asteroid collision in neighboring star...
'Once-in-a-lifetime event': Explosion in space to look like new star, NASA says
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoAstronomers dubbed the stars' system the “Blaze Star,” but it's also known as T Coronae Borealis...and giant make up a binary system, which is when "two stars orbit around ...
Watery planets orbiting dead stars may be good candidates for studying life -- if they can survive...
Science Daily· 21 hours agoAstronomers scrutinizing planets outside our solar system (called exoplanets) for potential signs of life gather data while those planets transit their star -- or pass between ...
'Absolutely gutted': How a jammed door is locking astronomers out of the X-ray universe
SPACE.com· 2 days agoJust outside Hiroya Yamaguchi's office is a blackboard crowded with exploded stars, spaceship schematics and spectral lines. Right now, Yamaguchi, an associate professor at Japan's Institute ...
Private Odysseus moon lander reveals which Earth 'technosignatures' aliens might see
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoBy looking at Earth as an exoplanet, astronomers hope to search for similar fingerprints coming from...
Phoenix exoplanet’s puffy atmosphere survives red giant star
EarthSky· 5 days agoAstronomers have discovered a new “hot Neptune” exoplanet, using the TESS space telescope and W.M....
'Stellar Dreams' project gifting 100 telescopes to 100 families (exclusive)
Space via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBesides donating telescopes, Stellar Dreams also offers recipients the chance to become members of a...
Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on what life is like on Earth?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 days agoTools like the new James Webb Space Telescope can reveal the size of exoplanets, how close they are...