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Discovery of an Extragalactic Hot Molecular Core
Figure 1. Artist’s concept image of the hot molecular core discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: FRIS/Tohoku University. The figure is a derivative work of the following sources (ESO/M....
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Our galaxy’s most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought
This artist’s conception shows a star behind a shattered comet. One of the theories for KIC 8462852’s unusual dimming is the presence of debris from a collision or breakup of a planet or comet in the...
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Building Blocks of Life’s Building Blocks Come From Starlight
The dusty side of the Sword of Orion is illuminated in this striking infrared image from ESA’s Hershel Space Observatory. Within the inset image, the emission from ionized carbon atoms (C+) is overlaid...
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Tatooine worlds orbiting 2 suns often survive violent escapades of aging stars
Artist view of a planet orbiting two aging stars that exchange material and spiral closer together. Image by Jon Lomberg Planets that revolve around two suns may surprisingly survive the violent late...
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A “Wimpy” Dwarf Fossil Galaxy
Faintest galaxy ever detected illuminates unusual aspects of the universe’s early evolution. The Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, where some of the new research on the Segue 1...
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Institute for Pale Blue Dots renamed in honor of Carl Sagan
Credit: Cornell University Carl Sagan longed to explore other worlds, to learn if they, too, contain life. A research institution devoted to the pursuit of this challenge, the Carl Sagan Institute:...
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Watching an Exoplanet in Motion Around a Distant Star
A team of astronomers has given us our best view yet of an exoplanet moving in its orbit around a distant star. A series of images captured between November 2013 to April 2015 shows the exoplanet β Pic...
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Where to look for life? Astronomers devise ‘habitability index’ to guide...
The James Webb Space Telescope, a large infrared telescope with a 6.5-meter primary mirror, is scheduled to be launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana in October of 2018 and will be the...
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Scientists Simulate 3-D Exotic Clouds on an Exoplanet
Artistic depiction of exoplanet GJ1214b.Wikimedia Commons, Tyrogthekreeper Scientists have catalogued nearly 2,000 exoplanets around stars near and far. While most of these are giant and inhospitable,...
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Retro Exo and Its Originators
David Delgado, visual Strategist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, co-designed the Orbital Pavilion sculpture for the World Science Festival in New York. (Ramsay de Give, The Wall Street Journal)...
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ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way Completed
The Southern Plane of the Milky Way from the ATLASGAL Survey. Credit: ESO/APEX/ATLASGAL consortium/NASA/GLIMPSE consortium/ESA/Planck A spectacular new image of the Milky Way has been released to mark...
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Our galaxy's most-mysterious star is even stranger than astronomers thought
This artist’s conception shows a star behind a shattered comet. One of the theories for KIC 8462852’s unusual dimming is the presence of debris from a collision or breakup of a planet or comet in the...
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Cloudy Nights, Sunny Days on Distant Hot Jupiters
This illustration represents how hot Jupiters of different temperatures and different cloud compositions might appear to a person flying over the dayside of these planets on a spaceship, based on...
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The Tricky Business of Finding Exocomets
A citizen scientist named Tom Jacobs, who is a businessman by day and a planet-hunter at night, has discovered two stars with strange dips in their light that are probably hosts to ‘exocomets’, i.e....
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Life’s building blocks may have formed in interstellar clouds
An experiment shows that one of the basic units of life — nucleobases — could have originated within giant gas clouds interspersed between the stars. Essential building blocks of DNA — compounds called...
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Many Gas Giant Exoplanets Waiting To Be Discovered
Washington, DC—There is an as-yet-unseen population of Jupiter-like planets orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, awaiting discovery by future missions like NASA’s WFIRST space telescope, according to new...
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Vital clues about recycling in the evolution of life in our universe
New research by Kent astrophysicists reveals vital clues about the role recycling plays in the formation of life in our universe. By investigating the different stages in the life journey of stars and...
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Even ‘Goldilocks’ exoplanets need a well-behaved star
An exoplanet may seem like the perfect spot to set up housekeeping, but before you go there, take a closer look at its star. Rice University astrophysicists are doing just that, building a computer...
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Short-lived light sources discovered in the sky
Roughly a hundred of very red, star-like sources that have appeared and vanished in short period of time have been discovered by a team of researchers when reviewing catalogue data, according to a new...
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