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Giant planet is light as cotton candy
WJW via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoThe planet was confirmed last year, but it took extra time and work to determine its consistency based on observations by ground telescopes. It’s thought...
Gravitational Lenses Could Pin Down Black Hole Mergers with Unprecedented Accuracy
Universe Today· 2 days agoGravitational wave astronomy has been one of the hottest new types of astronomy ever since the LIGO consortium officially detected the first gravitational ...
NASA Experts Concerned Billionaire Space Tourist Will Accidentally Break Hubble Space Telescope...
Futurism via Yahoo News· 4 hours agoIt's been 15 years since the last time NASA's groundbreaking Hubble Space Telescope was serviced by...
Einstein was right about the way matter plunges into black holes
New Scientist· 21 hours agoA strange area around black holes called the “plunging region” has been spotted for the first time....
The ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky: How a researcher used modern astronomy to explore her link...
Phys.org· 5 days agoMy recent study showed an intriguing link between an Egyptian goddess and the Milky Way. Slowly,...
Perry Cleveland-Peck — Senior Publishing Editor at The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal· 19 hours agoPerry Cleveland-Peck is a senior publishing editor with The Wall Street Journal, currently based in...
Researchers find 'fluffy oddball' of a planet with a composition similar to cotton candy
The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 23 hours ago“The reason why it’s close to cotton candy is because both are pretty much air," study co-author...
Northern Lights: When will we see the Aurora Borealis in Mississippi again?
Gannett via AOL· 1 day ago"Northern Lights happen when explosions on the surface of the sun create strong solar winds that in...
Cosmic butterfly or interstellar burger? This planet-forming disk is the largest ever seen
Space via Yahoo News· 24 hours agoIn short, it looks like a cosmic butterfly — and, for years, it was ignored. The object, known as...
NASA and JAXA to operate XRISM as-is despite instrument issue
SpaceNews· 3 days agoNASA and the Japanese space agency JAXA plan to operate an instrument on an X-ray astronomy satellite as-is for at least the next year and a half despite an issue affecting ...