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Life after stellar death? How life could arise on planets orbiting white dwarfs
SPACE.com· 6 days agoStars do not survive forever, the sun included. In about five billion years, Earth's star will begin...
Pluto isn’t a planet — but it gives us clues for how the solar system formed
NPR· 2 days agoThen, in the summer of 2006, Pluto was demoted. Part two of Short Wave's series Space Camp looks into this demotion from "planet" to "dwarf planet ...
The Sky This Week from June 21 to 28: Embrace June’s Strawberry Moon
Astronomy Magazine· 3 days agoThe Moon covers dwarf planet Ceres, Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) hangs around after dark, and...
NASA’s Planet Hunter’s Rare Glimpse at Two Black Holes in a Faraway Galaxy
SciTechDaily· 20 hours agoNASA’s TESS satellite helped confirm the theory of two black holes in galaxy OJ 287 in 2021, enhancing our knowledge of black holes and their behaviors. Several international research groups ...
The Solar System Is Weirder Than You Think
Hackaday· 7 days agoWhen I was a kid, the solar system was simple. There were nine planets and they all orbited in more-or-less circles around the sun. It’s a great story...
Gaia space telescope helps astronomers image hidden objects around bright stars
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA brown dwarf orbits a bright star in this illustration. | Credit: ESA Scientists have directly...
Gateway - Quartz
Quartz· 6 days agoA newly discovered exoplanet, with its remarkably temperate surface temperature, is suddenly one of the most intriguing objects in our immediate celestial neighborhood. This rocky Venus-sized ...
Ian Sample, The Guardian
The Raw Story· 6 days agoThe face of Pluto emerged from the gloom to reveal a dazzling landscape of ridges, ice mountains and plains of solid nitrogen hundreds of miles wide. Robots on the ground and in the sky above ...
Is an old NASA probe about to redraw the frontier of the solar system?
New Scientist· 5 days agoNASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is hurtling out of the solar system at an incredible speed. It is currently about 8 billion kilometres from the sun, and by the time you finish reading this story ...
Eccentric Oddities: Surprise Discovery of Mysterious Mini-Neptune Exoplanets
SciTechDaily· 6 days agoResearchers discovered four mini-Neptunes with volatile-rich compositions around red dwarfs, using...