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February 8, 2019 Science

A Star’s Outburst is Releasing Organic Molecules Trapped in the ice Around it

According to widely-accepted theories, the Solar System formed roughly 4.6 billion years ago from a massive cloud of dust and

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The Sun's corona - its outermost layer of atmosphere.

February 7, 2019 Science

Researchers find evidence for a new fundamental constant of the Sun

New research undertaken at Northumbria University, Newcastle shows that the sun’s magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed. Their findings

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HAZY HAVEN Titan may get its hazy atmosphere (shown in natural color in this image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft) from organic molecules warmed by the decay of radioactive elements in the moon’s core.

February 1, 2019 Science

Titan’s oddly thick atmosphere may come from cooked organic compounds

Titan may have a home-baked atmosphere. Saturn’s largest moon gets some of its thick atmosphere by cooking organic molecules in

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The Compact Muon Solenoid detector is a general-purpose detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, designed to observe any new physics phenomena that the LHC might reveal.

January 30, 2019 Science

International team of physicists continues search for new physics

Dark matter, which is thought to account for nearly a quarter of matter in the universe (but has yet to

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The bizarre galaxy NGC 1052-DF2, a diffuse collection of stars, gas and dust that is apparently devoid of dark matter.

January 26, 2019 Science

Ghostly Galaxies Hint at Dark Matter Breakthrough

Much as a ripple in a pond reveals a thrown stone, the existence of the mysterious stuff known as dark

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January 21, 2019 Science

Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’

The strange orbits of some objects in the farthest reaches of our solar system, hypothesised by some astronomers to be

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January 19, 2019 Science

Geothermal Heating Could Make Life Possible on the Super Earth Planet at Barnard’s Star

In 2018, scientists announced the discovery of a extrasolar planet orbiting Barnard’s star, an M-type (red dwarf) that is just

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The Hubble Ultra Deep Field of galaxies. A new study of the star formation activity in 179 of the galaxies in this image including many dating from about six billion years ago confirms an earlier puzzling result: lower mass galaxies tend to make stars at a rate slightly slower than expected.

January 18, 2019 Science

Making stars when the universe was half its age

The universe is about 13.8 billion years old, and its stars are arguably its most momentous handiwork. Astronomers studying the

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January 15, 2019 Virtual Reality

Vive Pro Eye first look: Fast track to the future

Vive Pro Eye first look: An opening look at the future of virtual reality? The Vive Pro Eye introduces an

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An artist's rendering of the quasar J043947.08+163415.7, the brightest known quasar with the luminosity of 600 trillion Suns

January 15, 2019 Science

Brightest quasar ever found shines with the intensity of 600 trillion Suns

From our point of view here on Earth, the brightest object in the sky is unquestionably the Sun. But this

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Feel like traveling to another dimension? Better choose your black hole wisely.

January 11, 2019 Science

Rotating black holes may serve as gentle portals for hyperspace travel

One of the most cherished science fiction scenarios is using a black hole as a portal to another dimension or

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This artist's impression shows hot gas orbiting in a disk around a rapidly-spinning black hole. The elongated spot depicts an X-ray-bright region in the disk, which allows the spin of the black hole to be estimated.

January 10, 2019 Science

X-ray pulse detected near event horizon as black hole devours star

On Nov. 22, 2014, astronomers spotted a rare event in the night sky: A supermassive black hole at the center

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