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Giant planet found around tiny white dwarf star, a first

Wednesday, December 4th 2019 03:58 PM

  For the first time, astronomers have discovered evidence for a giant planet orbiting a tiny, dead white dwarf star. And, surprisingly, the Neptune-sized planet is more than four times the diameter of the Earth-sized star it orbits. "This star has a planet that we can't see directly," study author Boris Gänsicke from the University of Warwick said in a press release. "But b...

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Earth may have recently destroyed one of its own minimoons

Wednesday, November 27th 2019 10:23 AM

  The Moon is probably not Earth’s only natural satellite right now. Our planet's gravity regularly captures small space rocks and pulls them into orbit. Astronomers estimate that there's probably a 1-yard-wide “minimoon” orbiting Earth at any given time.  And now, a team of researchers in Australia think they actually spotted one burning up in Earth’s atm...

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SpaceX releases 60 more Starlink satellites to orbit

Wednesday, November 13th 2019 01:35 PM

  On November 11, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying another 60 Starlink satellites, which will eventually provide internet service worldwide. The launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station made history by reusing a record number of rocket parts. But even with that feat in aerospace design, the launch wasn’t celebrated by everyone. According to SpaceX’s plans, St...

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A weird, orbital dance keeps these moons of Neptune safely on track

Thursday, November 21st 2019 11:13 AM

  Bobbing up and down like a carousel horse might not sound like a stable way to orbit a planet, but it works for one little moon of Neptune. The planet's innermost known satellite, Naiad, has a tilted orbit and it moves up-and-down relative to its neighboring moon, Thalassa.  The strange arrangement keeps the two moons steadily on track, despite their close orbits, without get...

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Home/News/Huge black holes may have cannibalistic baby black holes orbiting around them 3.1K Huge black holes may have cannibalistic baby black holes orbiting around them

Tuesday, November 19th 2019 01:14 PM

  When the LIGO collaboration first detected the spacetime ripples of a gravitational wave it came from the merger of two black holes. To date, scientists have detected at least ten pairs of black holes spiraling into and combining with each other. But there’s still an outstanding mystery about these singularities: why are some of them so big? Some have been far larger than scie...

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This spacecraft will detect if exoplanet skies are cloudy, hazy, or clear

Thursday, November 14th 2019 03:55 PM

  NASA announced last week that it will contribute to a European Space Agency mission scheduled to launch in 2028. The spacecraft, called ARIEL (for Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey), will be the first space mission dedicated to studying exoplanet atmospheres.During its primary mission lasting some four years, ARIEL will study the atmospheres of roughly 1,0...

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