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Astronomers Find Evidence Of A Massive Object Beyond The Orbit Of Neptune
IFLScience· 7 days agoWhen it comes to discovering planets, finding them around other stars is actually a little easier than locating them around our own. Astronomers can watch for dips in light ...
Brace for Impact: These Are the Best Disaster Movies of All Time
Cosmopolitan via AOL· 3 days agoWhether it's a natural disaster, disease, or asteroid hurtling through space straight towards Earth,...
Methane emission on brown dwarf may be created by auroras
EarthSky· 4 days agoFor the 1st time, astronomers have detected a methane emission on a brown dwarf. Researchers say...
Exploding stars send out powerful bursts of energy − I’m leading a citizen scientist project to...
San Francisco Chronicle· 5 days agoStudying these pulses, which can also come from mergers of some exotic astronomical objects such as black holes and neutron stars, can help astronomers like me understand ...
Space photo of the week: Little Dumbbell Nebula throws a wild party for Hubble telescope's 34th...
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAstronomers celebrated the Hubble Space Telescope's 34th anniversary with this stunning image of the...
Massive Flare From A Dead Star Lights Up Nearby ‘Cigar Galaxy’
Forbes· 4 days agoAstronomers have spotted a very brief burst of gamma rays in a distant galaxy near the Big Dipper....
Gamma-ray burst from magnetar lights up star-forming galaxy
Cosmos· 4 days agoAstronomers have witnessed a rare giant flare from a magnetar about 12 million light-years away....
Scientists say they have found evidence of an unknown planet in our solar system
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 days agoScientists say they have found new evidence that there is a hidden planet in our solar system. For...
Orion's erupting star system reveals its secrets
Phys.org· 1 hour agoThe strange phenomenon inspired a new classification of stars sharing the same name (FUor stars). It is now understood that this brightening is due to...
Opinion: America's 'big glass' dominance hangs on the fate of two powerful new telescopes
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 days agoMore than 100 years ago, astronomer George Ellery Hale brought our two Pasadena institutions together to build what was then the largest optical telescope in the world. The ...