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Astronomers Struggle to Explain Why Ancient Black Holes Are Nowhere to Be Found
Futurism via Yahoo News· 3 days agoWhen the Big Bang gave birth to our universe 13.8 billion years ago, one of the first things to...
Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on what life is like on Earth?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoBut that’s it. How would you look for life with that? Because elements emit light at particular...
Mysterious pit on Mars could be key to colonising Red Planet, astronomers say
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 days agoAn image of the pit, which is a few metres across, was captured by Nasa’s Mars...
The Moon is a prime spot for astronomy. It might not always be.
Astronomy Magazine· 16 hours agoThe Moon is uniquely suitable for researchers to build telescopes they can’t put on Earth because it...
How many stars in the Milky Way die each year?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEventually, the star sheds this puffy atmosphere, leaving behind a dense object known as a white dwarf. About 97% of the stars in the Milky Way,...
Lileks: The stars are aligning on Tuesday. What does it mean?
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIf life on this complicated rock is getting on your nerves, go outside Tuesday. Look up. In the heavens on June 4, there will be a parade of planets. As the website sciencealert.com put it: ...
‘Dinky’ asteroid has a tiny companion that baffles astronomers
CNN via Yahoo News· 5 days agoA solar radiation-triggered quake likely caused the asteroid Dinkinesh to lose material. Some of it...
Updated Formula on Alien Intelligence Suggests We Really Are Alone in the Galaxy
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAstronomer Frank Drake formulated his influential equation in 1961 to estimate the number of...
James Webb telescope discovers the 2 earliest galaxies in the known universe — and 1 is shockingly...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe James Webb Space Telescope has detected the two earliest, most distant galaxies in the known...
New Webb image isn't just stunning. It shattered a record.
Mashable· 4 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 ...