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Dwarf planet Eris is ‘squishier’ than expected
A depiction of Eris’s rocky core and ice shell on an illustrated background from NASA. Credit:…
Astronomers spot giant stream of stars between galaxies
The black streak is the newly discovered Giant Coma Stream. This line is ten times as…
After 50 years, US to return to moon on January 25
NASA’s Artemis 1 Space Launch System launches at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in November 2022 in…
A sophisticated Bayesian spectral energy distribution synthesis and analysis tool for multiband study of galaxies
In general, the observational noise is the more important source of error for the photometric stellar…
Research investigates a high-frequency bump in the X-ray binary GX 339-4
Hardness ratio versus type-C QPO frequency plot for the 91 observations of GX 339−4. The color…
Scientists discover rare six-planet system that moves in strange synchrony
An artist’s illustration of the six newly discovered planets circling their star in resonance. Image by…
New astrophysics model sheds light on additional source of long gamma-ray bursts
A snapshot from a simulation showing how the merger of a black hole and a neutron…
Observations find evolving material, not rings, circling Centaur Chiron
The predicted shadow path for the 2018 November 28 UT Chiron occultation. The solid black lines…
Distant stars spotted for the first time in the vast Magellanic Stream
Artist’s rendition of the Magellanic Stellar Stream. The Milky Way’s nearest neighboring galaxies—the Small and Large…