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www.sciencedaily.com At the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in St. Louis, Missouri, Allison Kirkpatrick, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Kansas, will announce her discovery of “cold quasars” — galaxies featuring an abundance of cold gas that still can produce new stars despite having a quasar at the center
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TOPICS:AstronomyExoplanetMax Planck InstitutePlanetary Science By DR. BIRGIT KRUMMHEUER, MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE MAY 25, 2019 If the orbit of an extrasolar planet is aligned in such a way that it passes in front of its star when viewed from Earth, the planet blocks out a small fraction of the star light in a very characteristic way. This process,
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, like many before him, is enamored with the idea of spinning space cities that might sustain future humans. By Korey Haynes | Published: Friday, May 17, 2019 O’Neill colonies are an idea nearly as old as the space program, but they still hold value for the future. NASA Last week, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos revealed
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By Michael Tabb in Livingston When LIGO announced in 2016 that it had discovered gravitational waves, something Albert Einstein predicted in his general theory of relativity, it was a breakthrough moment for astrophysics. The discovery made front-page news, the scientists behind it won the Nobel Prize, and the waveform of two black holes colliding made it onto a t-shirt featured on The Big
In this issue, you will read: Mystery of the universe’s expansion rate widens with new Hubble data Physicists Closer to Solving Mystery of Weird Glowing Ring Around Milky Way’s Black Hole New ultra metal-poor star discovered Japan creates first artificial crater on asteroid Research on disk galaxies sheds light on movement of stars ’Marsquake’: first
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In this issue, you will read: The powerful meteor that no one saw (except satellites) Levitating objects with light Galactic center visualization delivers star power Probability of catastrophic geomagnetic storm lower than estimated A Cosmic Bat in Flight The Mars InSight lander is stuck. NASA’s hacking a fix with Earthly clones New report on industrial
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In this issue, you will read: First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on Mars Countdown as SpaceX, NASA prepare to test new astronaut capsule Clues to Martian Life Found in Chilean Desert Dark matter may be hitting the right note in small galaxies Earthquake-detecting balloons may shed light on the interior of Venus Planet Nine
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