Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar Analog
Utilizing the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have actually straight imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in a cleared space of a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk around WISPIT 2…
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Astronomers Discover Extremely Rare Hierarchical Quadruple System
Called UPM J1040-3551 AabBab, the newly-discovered quadruple galaxy includes a set of cold brown overshadows and a set of young red overshadows. An artist’s impression of the UPM J1040-3551 system…
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Astronomers Confirm Fifth Exoplanet in L 98-59 System
Called L 98-59f, this world is a non-transiting super-Earth with a very little mass of 2.8 Earth masses on a 23-day orbit inside the habitable zone of the little red…
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Astronomers Directly Image Betelgeuse’s Stellar Companion
Utilizing the speckle imager ‘Alopeke on the Gemini North telescope, one half of NSF’s International Gemini Observatory, astronomers have actually recorded direct pictures of Betelgeuse– the second-closest red supergiant to…
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Astronomers are racing to study our solar system’s newest ‘interstellar visitor.’ Here’s why.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will blaze through our planetary system for the remainder of the year before zooming away permanently. (Image credit: ESA/Las Cumbres Observatory ) The huge neighborhood is abuzz…
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Astronomers capture the most intricate picture of a galaxy in a thousand colors ever seen
Zoomed-in picture of the Sculptor galaxy, as seen by the Very Large Telescope. (Image credit: ESO/E. Congiu et al.) Astronomers have actually acquired a sensational brand-new picture of the Sculptor…
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Astronomers May Have Caught Still-Forming Gas Giant around RIK 113
Astronomers utilizing ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have actually caught incredible pictures of a remarkably structured planet-forming disk around the star RIK 113. This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large…
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Astronomers Discover Dwarf Planet Candidate on 25,000-Year Orbit
Called 2017 OF201, the newly-discovered trans-Neptunian item is among the most far-off noticeable things in our Solar System and is most likely big (about 700 km in size) enough to…
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Astronomers identify first ‘good’ candidate for controversial Planet Nine deep in our solar system
World Nine’s presence may discuss the strange orbit of some things in the Kuiper Belt. (Image credit: Shutterstock) Astronomers looking for a ninth world in our planetary system state they’ve…
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Astronomers discover giant ‘bridge’ in space that could finally solve a violent galactic mystery
The Perseus galaxy cluster taken by the Subaru Telescope at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii. The freshly found subcluster is on the. Overlaid in blue is the presumed circulation…
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