A coronal mass ejection in April 2023 caused Earth to grow Alfvén wings. (This CME, with Earth illustrated to scale, took place in 2021.) Credit: NASA/GSFC/SDO Like a supersonic jet…
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Webb images new, cold exoplanet 12 light-years away
An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have directly imaged an exoplanet roughly 12 light-years from Earth. While there were hints that the planet existed,…
Astronomers use AI to find elusive stars ‘gobbling up’ planets
Credit: NASA, ESSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI). Astronomers have recently found hundreds of “polluted” white dwarf stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. These are white dwarfs caught actively consuming…
After debris concerns, SpaceX to shift Dragon capsule landings from Florida to California
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Evidence of debris stemming from return trips of SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has prompted the company to shift future landing operations from Florida to California. The move…
Super-Jupiter – Technology Org
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy imaged a new exoplanet that orbits a star in the nearby triple…
Sunrise III: Data storage recovered
Following the landing of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III in the Canadian Northwest Territories, the recovery team has now reached the landing site. Sunrise III has touched down in…
The sun’s corona is weirdly hot, and Parker Solar Probe rules out one explanation
As Parker Solar Probe files around the sun, it finds abrupt reversals in the direction of the sun’s magnetic fields. These S-shaped bends in the sun’s magnetic field are very…
Dark Matter Flies Ahead of Normal Matter in Mega Galaxy Cluster Collision
Astronomers have untangled a messy collision between two massive clusters of galaxies in which the clusters’ vast clouds of dark matter have decoupled from the so-called normal matter. The two…
Ever see a star explode? You’re about to get a chance very soon
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every clear night for the last three weeks, Bob Stephens has pointed his home telescope at the same two stars in hopes of witnessing one of…
Study examines matter distribution and supports unknown influence or new particle
Artistic reconstruction of a photon’s path through intergalactic gas. Credit: UC Riverside The dense peaks in the wavelength distribution graph observed in a Lyman-Alpha forest indeed resemble many small trees.…
