Giant cosmic ‘sandwich’ is the largest planet-forming disk ever seen — Space photo of the week
This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals the biggest planet-forming disk ever observed around a young star. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Kristina Monsch(CfA); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale(STScI)) FAST FACTS What…
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Giant sunspot that triggered recent solar ‘superstorm’ shot out nearly 1,000 flares and a secret X-rated explosion, record-breaking study reveals
Sunspot AR 13364 grew to be approximately 15 times broader than Earth and released almost 1,000 various solar flares in its three-month life-span, including this X-class flare on May. 15,…
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Cassius the giant crocodile died from sepsis after 40-year-old dormant infection burst from ‘abscess,’ necropsy reveals
Cassius passed away in 2015 from sepsis, brand-new tests results expose. ( Image credit: Marineland Melanesia ) A postmortem evaluation has actually exposed that Cassius, an 18-foot-long(5.5 meters)captive crocodile that…
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Giant sunspot on par with the one that birthed the Carrington Event has appeared on the sun — and it’s pointed right at Earth
The brand-new sunspot complex AR 4294-4296 is jointly around the very same size as the dark spot that activated the notorious Carrington Event in 1859. ( Image credit: NASA) A…
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Giant rotating string of 14 galaxies is ‘probably the largest spinning object’ in the known universe
A huge, spinning branch of the cosmic web binds 14 galaxies together, making it possibly the biggest turning structure ever found. (Image credit: Lyla Jung ) Astronomers have actually found…
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Webb Detects Giant Clouds of Helium Leaking from WASP-107b
Utilizing high-precision spectroscopic observations from the Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers identified helium gas getting away from WASP-107b, a super-Neptune…
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Giant ‘diamond ring’ sparkles 4,500 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation — Space photo of the week
The strange’ diamond ring’in Cygnus might be the residues of a burst bubble, brand-new research study tips. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) FAST FACTS What it is: A’cosmic ring’– a broadening…
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Giant North American ‘hell pigs’ could crunch bones like lions 30 million years ago, tooth analysis reveals
An Archaeotherium skull on display screen at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon. The picture is for illustrative functions just; this fossil wasn’t part of the brand-new research…
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Giant ‘chessboard’ surrounds Idaho river in bizarre astronaut photo — Earth from space
When seen from area, this system of forest appears like a huge chessboard due to a grid-based management system and a covering of snow. (Image credit: NASA/ISS program) FAST FACTS…
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Giant ‘X’ appears over Chile as 2 celestial beams of light cross: Space photo of the week
The Milky Way and zodiacal light crisscross above the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. (Image credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/ AURA/P. Horálek(Institute of Physics in Opava)) FAST FACTS What it is: The…
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