“Cosmic archaeologists” have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient stars enriched their successors.
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The research could shed light on how black holes vomit out matter and how this influences their home galaxies.
A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil.
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The dust storm created travel complications and other issues for Texans.
The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy known as the Hubble tension.
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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered an example of a new class of exoplanet, and it smells like rotten eggs.
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With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ghost particles from long-dead stars.
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As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other’s shape and structure, potentially revealing clues as to what lies within them.
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So, why is it that Orion is not always visible in the night sky, and certainly not in the same location month after month, while the Big Dipper always is?
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Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.
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