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Astronomers Uncover New Details in the Brightest Gamma Ray Burst Ever Detected
In October 2022, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected an…
Predicting Solar Storms Before They Leave the Sun
When giant solar storms hit Earth, they trigger beautiful auroral displays high in Earth’s atmosphere. There’s…
How to SUPPPPRESS Light From a Star That Is Ten Billion Times Brighter Than Its Habitable Exoplanet
Searching for Earth 2.0 has been an obsession of almost all exoplanet hunters since the discipline’s…
Space Debris From Every Angle
Near-Earth space is an orbiting junkyard of space debris. Everything from old rocket parts and pieces…
A Surprising Source of Oxygen in the Deep Sea
I have always found Mariana’s Trench fascinating, it’s like an alien world right on our doorstep.…
When Earth Danced with Polar Moons
The origins of the Moon have been the cause of many a scientific debate over the…
No Merger Needed: A Rotating Ring of Gas Creates A Hyperluminous Galaxy
Some galaxies experience rapid star formation hundreds or even thousands of times greater than the Milky…
Can Geoengineering Protect Earth’s Icesheets?
It’s time to take a thorough, more serious look at using geoengineering to protect the planet’s…
The Properties of 1.2 Million Solar System Objects Are Now Contained In A Machine-Readable Database
Academic research on solar system objects has increased dramatically over the last twenty years. However, information…