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Capturing the cosmos on canvas: How art helps scientists and space agencies communicate with the public
Astrophysicist and artist Ed Belbruno explains how art helps scientists communicate their work to the public and even ...
Farewell to Gaia, the Milky Way’s Cartographer
After more than a decade of mapping the stars, the European spacecraft was shut down on Thursday. But its legacy lives on.
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'It’s still surreal': NASA engineer explains what it's like to help put spacecraft into orbit
Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a ...
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Scientists discover a new Super-Earth: TOI-512 b
An international team, including University of Geneva researchers, discovered a super-Earth named TOI-512 b orbiting a star ...
Liftoff! NASA’s Twin Missions Launch to Unravel the Big Bang & Solar Storms
SPHEREx, NASA’s latest astrophysics observatory, has launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket alongside PUNCH, a mission studying solar wind. SPHEREx will create a 3D map of the universe, helping to uncover ...
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Seven Earth-sized planets orbit an alien star only 40 light-years away
The seven planets in the system closely orbit their star, so that if TRAPPIST-1 were in place of our sun in the solar system, the planets surrounding it would all be within the orbit of Mercury ...
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'Primordial' helium from the birth of the solar system may be stuck in Earth's core
Light gases like helium hung around in the gas-and-dust nebula that formed the solar system for only a few million years. "It's very much debated how long it took the Earth to form," Olson said.
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Every planet of our solar system is lining up in the February night sky
NEW YORK — Seven planets grace the sky at the end of February in what’s known as a planetary parade, though some will be difficult to spot with the naked eye. These planetary hangouts happen when ...
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6 Mind-Blowing Facts About New NASA Discovery From Edge Of Our Solar System
The Oort Cloud is the name given to a theorized group of potentially trillions of icy objects on the edge of our solar system ... to match the Earth's orbit around the sun.) ...
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Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit Triggers Ice Ages, And There's One in The Next 11,000 Years
but teasing out which aspects of Earth's orbit are involved in fluctuations in climate is not an easy task. "Earth's climate is an interconnected system of complex processes, all acting together to ...
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China declassifies tech of world’s first high-orbit radar satellite, worrying US
After 18 months of eye-in-the-sky secrecy, Chinese scientists have revealed the revolutionary technology behind the world’s first geosynchronous orbit synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite ...
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
Now, using a powerful NASA supercomputer called "Pleiades," scientists have discovered yet another spiral structure on the edge of our solar system ... out beyond the orbit of Neptune, which ...