Astronomy
Astronomy
A galaxy destined to fade
Astronomers observed a galaxy ejecting immense quantities of cold gas, enough to form 10,000 new stars the size of the Sun every year
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Astronomy
Space 1.6 million years from now
Using new data astronomers have predicted the movement of the 300,000 stars within 326 light-years of the Sun over the next 1.6 million years
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Hayabusa2
Successful return
The Japanese space mission has successfully collected samples from the asteroid Ryugu and brought them safely back to Earth
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Astronomy
A 10-billion-year-old fossil
In the center of the Milky Way lie the remains of another galaxy that it cannibalized some 10 billion years ago
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Geology
Water on the near side of the moon
There is water on the Moon, and not only in the dark craters located near its poles
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Astronomy
Heading for Mars
The United Arab Emirates launched its first interplanetary space probe from a space center in Japan
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Astronomy
Asteroid showers on Earth and the Moon
About 800 million years ago, fragments of a large asteroid collided with Earth and the Moon
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SpaceX
A historic flight
On May 31, American astronauts arrived at the International Space Station for a three-month mission
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Astronomy
A moon on the move
Titan, the largest of Saturn's 82 moons, is moving away from the planet almost 100 times faster than previously estimated
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Astronomy
High-resolution moon
Researchers have produced the first detailed digital map of the Moon's entire surface
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Astrophysics
Mars in super-high resolution
In March, NASA presented the highest resolution panoramic image ever taken of the surface of Mars
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Astronomy
A giant, sleeping galaxy
An international group of astronomers has identified a rare galaxy, known only as XMM-2599, which formed very early in the history of the universe
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Photolab
Needle in a haystack
In this collage ultra-diffuse galaxies are shown by the faint white patches in the center of each square
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Astronomy
Probe reveals origin of solar winds
The Parker Solar Probe space probe has been closer to the Sun than any other manmade object, and it is expected to get even closer over the next seven years of its mission
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Astronomy
Saturn has more moons than Jupiter
Researchers announced the discovery of 20 new moons around Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun
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Astronomy
Water in the atmosphere of other worlds
A group has identified water vapor in the atmosphere of planet K2-18b by studying images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
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Interview
Daniel Kennefick: The importance of Sobral
An astrophysicist and science historian reports that without the observation of the eclipse in the city of Ceará, the experimental results of 1919 would probably have been inconclusive
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