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Volunteers Help Discover Extra-Solar Planet
The newly discovered planet PH1 is depicted in this artist’s rendition transiting the larger of the its two host stars. Left of the planet, off in the distance, is a second pair of stars that orbit...
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Scientists Discover Universe’s Largest Known Structure
Artist’s impression of a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun. (Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser via Wikimedia Commons) Scientists have found the largest...
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New Imager Finds Distant Planets Unlike Others in Known Universe
Image of the HR8799 planets with starlight optically suppressed and data processing conducted to remove residual starlight. The star is at the center of the blackened circle in the image. The four...
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Ultra-Light Planet Found Outside Solar System
The blue dot is the newly discovered exoplanet, HD95086B, which was captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. (ESO) The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered what appears to...
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Science Images of the Week
Pepper, a human-like robot made by Japan’s SoftBank Corporation, on display in Tokyo on June 6, 2014. SoftBank envisions the robots serving as baby-sitters, nurses, emergency medical workers and even...
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Slumbering Giant Black Hole Awakes After 26 Years
Artist’s impression of a black hole feasting on matter from its companion star in a binary system. (ESA/ATG medialab) Some 8,000 light years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus, a binary system...
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A Blast of Gamma Rays from Halfway Across the Universe Detected
This artist’s conception shows a blazar – the core of an active galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole. (M. Weiss/CfA) Back in April 2015, a surge of high-powered gamma rays from half-way across...
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August 2016 Science Images
NASA astronauts Jeff Williams, shown here along with crewmate Kate Rubins (who can be seen reflected in William’s visor) successfully installed a new international docking adapter 8/19/16 during a...
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Volunteers Help Discover Extra-Solar Planet
The newly discovered planet PH1 is depicted in this artist’s rendition transiting the larger of the its two host stars. Left of the planet, off in the distance, is a second pair of stars that orbit...
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Scientists Discover Universe’s Largest Known Structure
Artist’s impression of a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun. (Image: ESO/M. Kornmesser via Wikimedia Commons) Scientists have found the largest...
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New Imager Finds Distant Planets Unlike Others in Known Universe
Image of the HR8799 planets with starlight optically suppressed and data processing conducted to remove residual starlight. The star is at the center of the blackened circle in the image. The four...
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Ultra-Light Planet Found Outside Solar System
The blue dot is the newly discovered exoplanet, HD95086B, which was captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. (ESO) The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered what appears to...
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Science Images of the Week
Pepper, a human-like robot made by Japan’s SoftBank Corporation, on display in Tokyo on June 6, 2014. SoftBank envisions the robots serving as baby-sitters, nurses, emergency medical workers and even...
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Slumbering Giant Black Hole Awakes After 26 Years
Artist’s impression of a black hole feasting on matter from its companion star in a binary system. (ESA/ATG medialab) Some 8,000 light years from Earth, in the constellation Cygnus, a binary system...
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A Blast of Gamma Rays from Halfway Across the Universe Detected
This artist’s conception shows a blazar – the core of an active galaxy powered by a supermassive black hole. (M. Weiss/CfA) Back in April 2015, a surge of high-powered gamma rays from half-way across...
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August 2016 Science Images
NASA astronauts Jeff Williams, shown here along with crewmate Kate Rubins (who can be seen reflected in William’s visor) successfully installed a new international docking adapter 8/19/16 during a...
View ArticleNew Insight Into TRAPPIST 1 Planets
Two new, but separate, studies provide fresh insight into planets orbiting the nearby red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, suggests the atmospheres...
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