KM3NeT Telescope Detects Most Energetic Cosmic Neutrino Yet
Called KM3-230213A, the newly-detected neutrino brought an impressive energy of 220 peta-electronvolts (PeV), making it among the most effective primary particles ever found. Its energy was approximately a 100 million…
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Juno Detects Massive Volcanic Hotspot near Io’s South Pole
The newly-discovered volcanic hotspot is bigger than Earth’s Lake Superior, and burps out eruptions 6 times the overall energy of all the world’s power plants. An enormous hotspot can be…
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XMM-Newton Detects Mysterious X-Ray Oscillations in Supermassive Black Hole
In 2018, astronomers observed that the corona of 1ES 1927 +654, an actively accreting, 1.4-million-solar-mass great void situated in a galaxy around 270 million light-years away, all of a sudden…
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Webb Detects 138 Decameter Asteroids in Main Belt
These asteroids are as little as 10 m throughout, making them the tiniest asteroids ever observed in the primary asteroid belt. An artist’s illustration of Webb exposing, in the infrared,…
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Webb Detects Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen Peroxide on Charon’s Surface
Utilizing information from the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have actually discovered co2 (CO2and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2on the frozen surface area of Pluto’s moon…
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