Supernova 'rains' could give rise to mysteriously magnetic dead stars
New research indicates that matter ejected during the supernova death of a star can fall back to neutrons stars, giving rise ...
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Temperamental stars are distorting our view of distant planets
Temperamental' stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant planets, suggests a new study.
A Wedding Where Cold Feet Were to Be Expected
When Eric Sun and Jennifer Liu, avid travelers who met in college, decided to marry, there was one continent left on their ...
NASA's Punch mission to finally solve Sun's biggest mystery
Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...
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NASA’s PUNCH Mission Will Capture the Solar Wind in 3D—And It Could Change Space Weather Forever
NASA is preparing to launch PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere), a groundbreaking mission that will use four satellites to study the solar wind in 3D. The mission, set to launch on ...
Scientists discover black holes spinning unexpectedly fast: 'You’re essentially looking at its fossil record'
A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...
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Why do the solar system’s planets have different compositions?
While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.