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Magnetic Fingerprints of The Milky Way's Black Hole Revealed in Stunning Image
The magnetic fields that spiral around our galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* have now been revealed by twisted light.
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Queen's Brian May helped NASA return its first asteroid sample
Brian May has once again proven why he is rock royalty. Not only is he the Queen guitarist, but he is also an astrophysicist who recently helped NASA return its first ever asteroid sample to Earth.
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"Planets Billions of Years Older Than Earth May Exist in the Milky Way"
Building a terrestrial planet requires raw materials that weren't available in the early history of the universe.
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Cosmic Turbulences in 'Dead Zones' Cause Black Holes and Stars to Form
Stars and black holes can form from rotating matter. Yet exactly how they form has long remained one of the big questions of astrophysics. Now, scientists have discovered magnetic fields can cause turbulences within "dead zones," helping them understand just how compact objects form in the cosmos.
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The True Size of the Universe: Astronomers' Breakthrough in Measuring Rate of Expansion
Researchers have made novel measurements of the universe by using BOSS, the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, when the universe was a mere three billion years old.
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Astronomers Unravel Secrets of Weirdly Tilted Solar Systems
Astronomers have spotted two solar systems forming on a slant, thanks to the influence of each other's stars.
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20-Year Mystery of the Universe's Brightest Objects Solved
Quasars are the brightest objects in the universe, and display a mysterious diversity in their appearance that have puzzled astronomers for more than two decades. Now, scientists think they have a method for solving that mystery.
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Using Plasma to Manipulate Light
The polarization of an intense laser beam can theoretically be controlled by mixing it with a second beam in a plasma.
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'Magic Island' Mystery Just Became More Puzzling
The "magic island" mystery on Saturn's moon Titan just became more puzzling. Last year, astronomers spotted a strange bright feature in Titan's Ligeia Mare sea that they called a "magic island." The object first appeared in pho...
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A black hole was caught swallowing a planet | CosmosUp
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WORKING LIFE EXTENSIONS FOR ESA’S SCIENCE MISSIONS
Continuing operations of ten space science missions have been extended by ESA’s Science Programme Committee (SPC).
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Unlocking the Secrets of an Alien World's Magnetic Field
The strength of an alien world's magnetic field may have been deduced for the first time, by analyzing fast winds slamming against it from the planet's star. The research could help gauge the strength of other exoplanets' magnetic fields as well.
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Clues revealed about hidden interior of Uranus
(Phys.org) —Long believed to be one of the blandest regions of any of the giant gas planets, the southern hemisphere of Uranus indicates a flurry of previously unknown atmospheric phenomena, hinting at an unusual feature in the interior of the planet.
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Two New Sub-Atomic Particles Discovered at CERN | IFLScience
Two never-before-seen particles have just been detected at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest particle accelerator, by the international LHCb collaboration. Known as Xi_b'- and Xi_b*-, the new particles belong to the baryon family.
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Professor Brian Cox 'would go into space' on a commercial flight, despite Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic tragedy
Are we set to see Professor Brian Cox go where no TV presenter has gone before? The celebrity physicist has revealed to i that he is willing to pay to go into space – despite the Virgin Galactic tragedy on 31 October that left one pilot dead.
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Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Ignores Its 'Snack,' and Debate Swirls
A mysterious object orbiting our black hole has not yet revealed its identity as a gas cloud or a star, and two groups with a history of competition are each hoping to solve the puzzle.
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NASA X-ray Telescopes Find Black Hole May Be a Neutrino Factory
The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be producing mysterious particles called neutrinos.
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Spot the difference — Hubble spies another globular cluster, but with a secret
Spot the difference — Hubble spies another globular cluster, but with a secret
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Astronomers Discover a Potentially Habitable Nearby Super-Earth, Gliese 832 c
Using data from HARPS-TERRA, the Planet Finder Spectrograph and the UCLES echelle spectrograph, astronomers have discovered a new potentially habitable Super-Earth around the nearby red-dwarf star Gliese 832. An international team of astronomers, led by Robert A. Wittenmyer from UNSW Australi
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Fascinating planets outside the Solar System – part 2 | CosmosUp
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