With the help of an extremely powerful telescope deep underground in Japan, astronomers may be able to catch a glimpse of ghost particles from long-dead stars.
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As binary neutron stars spiral around each other to merge, their gravitational tidal forces distort each other’s shape and structure, potentially revealing clues as to what lies within them.
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So, why is it that Orion is not always visible in the night sky, and certainly not in the same location month after month, while the Big Dipper always is?
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Astronomers have tracked a powerful blast of radiation back to its source, finding a neutron star collision within colliding galaxies.
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Russia plans to launch the Venera-D mission to Venus in 2036, continuing the Soviet Union’s legacy of exploring there in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
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A new NASA satellite image has captured a rare view of an erupting volcano, revealing its bright red lava flow as seen from space.
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Astronomers have witnessed evidence of an extremely violent collision between planets, and it resembles the event in Earth’s history that created the moon.
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The impetus for establishing a “Lunar Surface Moon Base” is that America is in a space race with China.
Astronomers have discovered that the birth of neutron stars with magnetic fields trillions of times stronger than Earth’s magnetosphere is the “magic trick” behind superbright supernovas.
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Our sun and a host of “solar twins” may have migrated away from the core of the Milky Way galaxy together long ago, potentially making the solar system more hospitable to life.
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