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Exoplanet nurseries around infant stars can be much smaller than expected: 'It is astonishing'
New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...
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"We've Been Wrong For A Long Time": Protoplanetary Disks Are Much Smaller Than We Thought
A new study using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile has taken a look at the Lupus molecular ...
Astro-challenge: Following Venus from dusk until dawn
Up for a challenge? If skies are clear, you may be able to complete a rare feat of visual athletics this coming weekend, and ...
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
"We were quite surprised," Dones continued. "Spirals are seen in Saturn's rings, disks around young stars and galaxies. The ...
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This astronomer found a sneaky extra star in James Webb Space Telescope data
"One pixel in this image that we are looking at is 14 AU," Bajaj said. For context, a single AU, or "astronomical unit," represents the mind-blowing distance between our planet and the sun — about 93 ...
Asteroid has a very small chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but a collision could devastate a city
In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...
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This astronomer found a sneaky extra star in James Webb Space Telescope data
"One pixel in this image that we are looking at is 14 AU," Bajaj said. For context, a single AU, or "astronomical unit," represents the mind-blowing distance between our planet and the sun ...