Gorgeous Hubble Images Show Galaxy Collisions Can Produce Extreme Star Clusters
They formed in clusters from gas and dust in large clouds. The Milky Way creates star clusters with masses 10,000 times larger than our Sun.…
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Astronomers Find The Most Distant Quasar Ever Discovered, and It’s a Beast
An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of the farthest cassava yet, and it is the light of an animal coming to us…
Astronomers Witness the Death of a Very Distant Galaxy
Galaxies presumed dead after galaxies stopped making new stars. These dead galaxies have gone out of gas to create new stars. Without these, they will gradually…
“Galaxy-Sized” Space Observatory May Have Detected Subtle Gravitational Waves Background
The gravitational waves that our earth-based detectors capture is not just present in the universe. Scientists hope that more subtle and steady squabbles will divide…
Researchers Have Found a New Way to Turn a Black Hole into a Power Station
Nothing can survive a black hole when its events have crossed its event horizon, but mathematical analysis over the past few decades has shown that…
NASA Found a Six-Star System Where Stars Are Constantly Eclipsing Each Other
Stars can get into quite weird configurations, which are often more difficult to clarify and model. However, the system TIC 168789840 is almost too remarkable…
High Schoolers Discover Four New Exoplanets, Including a Super-Earth
The four explanations were discovered by two high schools approximately ToI-1233, making them among the youngest people to ever discover a celestial body. Sixteen-year-old Kartik Pinglé…
A Mineral from the Depths of Antarctica May Explain a Puzzle on Mars
In 2004, NASA’s rover operation discovered a strange mineral, jarosite, on Mars. It is a sulfate of iron and potassium and requires water and acidic…
Astronomers Discover First-Ever Cloudless “Hot Jupiter”
Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet with a clear cloudless atmosphere that is only the second time they have discovered an exoplanet. It was the first to…
Strange Rediscovered Planet Does Tatooine One Better with Three Suns
Even among the crowds of new planets discovered in the last decade, some may be surprised. The latest example was actually the second detection of…
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