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The Seven Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made by Exploring Mercury
Smithsonian Magazine· 3 days agoIt seems like Mercury, sitting so close to the sun, should already be a dead planet. Scientists thought the humble hunk of rock that’s only slightly girthier than Earth’s moon would have been ...
Astronomers detect radio halo in a massive galaxy cluster
Phys.org· 4 days agoAn international team of astronomers has performed radio observations of a massive galaxy cluster...
3 young planetary systems revealed by Webb telescope
EarthSky· 4 days agoNew features detected by Webb are superimposed in orange on HL Tauri and its protoplanetary disk, located 357 light-years from Earth. The image reveals...
Star Power
Columbia University News· 6 days agoAn astronomy research team led by Columbia scientists has discovered that a spinning neutron star with a superpowerful magnetic field — called a magnetar — is emitting radio waves, behavior ...
2,000-foot-wide 'potentially hazardous' asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth — and...
LiveScience· 4 days agoA "city-killer" asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth since records began, sailing safely past our planet at more than eight times the average distance between Earth and the moon ...
Word of the Day: sparse
New York Times· 2 days agoDark galaxies are entities whose stars are so sparse and faint that their light cannot be discerned other than as a thin, transparent haze that doesn’t seem to contain any stars at all. One ...