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Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on what life is like on Earth?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 5 days agoBut that’s it. How would you look for life with that? Because elements emit light at particular...
Sunspots in Han China, in This Week’s Open Thread
Slate· 2 days agoOn this day in 28 BC, the imperial records of the Han Dynasty state that a sunspot was observed by imperial astronomers. The ancient Chinese dynasty...
NASA, Global Astronomers Await Rare Nova Explosion - NASA
NASA· 6 days agoAround the world this summer, professional and amateur astronomers alike will be fixed on one small...
A Portal to the Past: Hubble Reveals an Ancient Witness to a Galactic Merger
SciTechDaily· 2 days agoThis mesmerizing image from the Hubble Space Telescope features the globular cluster NGC 2005. NGC...
'Supernova discovery machine' James Webb Space Telescope finds most distant star explosion on record
Space via Yahoo News· 15 hours agoThe JWST has proven itself to be a "supernova discovery machine" by finding 80 exploding stars in...
Scientists spot massive asteroid collision — in another solar system
Mashable· 1 day agoBeta Pictoris is known to have two gas giant planets, and is seen as a place where rocky worlds...
Webb Is a Supernova Discovery Machine: 10x More Supernovae in Early Universe
SciTechDaily· 1 day agoNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is proving to excel as a supernova hunter! Thanks to its extreme...
How the Webb and Gaia missions bring a new perspective on galaxy formation
Ars Technica· 2 days agoIn a feat of galactic archeology, astronomers are using ever more detailed information to trace the...
James Webb telescope finds carbon at the dawn of the universe, challenging our understanding of when...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe James Webb Space Telescope has found carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big...
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...