Are we wrong about the age of the universe? The James Webb telescope is raising big questions.
Illustration of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). (Image credit: Dima Zel through Shutterstock) The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ) is the biggest and most effective area telescope constructed…
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VST Sees Newborn Stars in Gum 39
Gum 39 is among a number of nebulae in a large excellent nursery called the Running Chicken Nebula (IC 2944), which lies about 6,500 light-years away in the constellation of…
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Researchers Discover Animal Life in Subseafloor Crust at Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vents
Marine biologists have actually discovered adult tubeworms and other vent animals listed below the seafloor in the East Pacific Rise, a volcanically active, fast-spreading ridge with various hydrothermal vent fields….
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NASA Astronauts, SOHO Spacecraft Snap New Images of Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS
An intense comet from the Oort cloud called C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is going by Earth and will show up through the 2nd half of October 2024. This image, taken by…
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WWII British sub that sank with 64 on board finally found off Greek Island
The wreck of HMS Trooper was found at a depth of 770 feet in the Aegean Sea north of the island of Donoussa. (Image credit: Κostas Thoctarides/Planet Blue ) Shipwreck…
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Rare illusion gives ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ comet a seemingly impossible 2nd tail after closest approach to Earth for 80,000 years
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was found with a thin streak of light, referred to as an anti-tail, pointing in the total opposite instructions to its intense streaming tail. This picture was handled…
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Top-secret X-37B space plane will execute ‘never-before-seen maneuvers’ on its descent to Earth
The X-37B will participate in “aerobraking” — a series of regulated descents into Earth’s environment. This will quickly and unexpectedly alter its orbit. (Image credit: Boeing Space) A trick, speculative…
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What badminton can teach us about planetary formation
It may not come as a surprise to find out that Lin is a badminton gamer. “The experience of playing badminton is really the thing that kick-started the idea and…
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Europa Clipper blasts off: What’s next for NASA’s biggest-ever interplanetary spacecraft?
An artist’s impression of Europa Clipper carrying out a flyby of Europa as it orbits Jupiter (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA has actually effectively introduced the Europa Clipper, the firm’s biggest-ever…
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Apple A17 Pro chip is the star of the first iPad mini update in three years
Apple silently revealed a brand-new variation of its iPad small tablet by means of news release today, the tablet’s very first upgrade because 2021. The seventh-generation iPad mini looks mainly…
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