Astronomy - Space Axiom (Page 15)

Astronomers Confirm the Existence of Ice Deposits at Mercury's Poles

A team of U.S. researchers combined the data it collected with MESSENGER observations and created the most detailed map of water ice deposits on Mercury and even determined its degree of purity.

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LAMOST Discovered Over 1,500 Compact Galaxies

Of the 1,417 new compact galaxies, 739 are Green Pea galaxies, 270 are Blueberry galaxies, and 388 are Purple Grape galaxies. These classes of stellar systems have received such strange names relatively recently because of their appearance.

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CAPSTONE Lunar Cubesat Mission Is Ready for Launch

It is the first mission undertaken as part of the Gateway near-lunar orbital station program. CAPSTONE will have to test the orbit where the new space outpost of humankind is planned to be placed.

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Jupiter's Twin Was Spotted 17,000 Light-Years Away

This is the first time in the history of science that the telescope has been able to detect an extrasolar planet through a microlensing event. Kepler wasn't really designed for such observations.

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NASA May Still Rename the James Webb Space Telescope

Opponents of the name are calling for the project to be renamed because of the alleged bad reputation of James Webb himself. People remembered that during his time in the federal government, he fueled discrimination against the LGBT community.

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UAE's Hope Probe and NASA's MAVEN Mission to Share Scientific Data

NASA said it had reached an agreement to share scientific data between the Emirates Mars Mission and MAVEN mission teams. This should increase the scientific impact of both projects and help unlock the mysteries of the Red Planet.

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Scientists Develop the Most Detailed Model of the Early Universe

In order to perform such a large-scale project, 24,576 graphics and 131,072 ordinary processors connected to the Summit supercomputer were used. The calculation process took 10 days.

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Hubble Discovers a Rapidly Growing Black Hole in the Early Universe

Until now, the galaxy called GNz7q has been hiding unnoticed in one of the most studied areas of the night sky – the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-North (GOODS-North) field.

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Hubble Determines the Size of the Largest Icy Comet Nucleus

Comet C/2014 UN271 was discovered by astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein while analyzing images taken as part of the DES (Dark Energy Survey) from 2013 to 2019.

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Sunspot Activity Is Exceeding All Predictions

The increase in the number of sunspots will also directly affect the number and power of flares, which can cause communications blackouts, power grid fluctuations and spectacular auroras.

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Astronomers Discover Two Saturn-Mass Exoplanets

The discovery was made using the radial-velocity method within the CARMENES survey. The essence of the method is to find the characteristic "wobbles" of stars caused by the gravity of their invisible companions.

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures Dry Ice on Mars

Dry ice is formed by the freezing of carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere. In midwinter, this frost reaches from the poles down to the middle latitudes, up to 50° latitude.

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Hubble Took a Picture of a Forming Jupiter-Like Protoplanet

The newborn planet orbits the protostar AB Aurigae. The planet is a gas giant whose mass is nine times that of Jupiter. The exoplanet orbits at a distance of 8.6 billion miles from its parent star.

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Hubble Space Telescope Captures Images of a Spiral Galaxy

It is believed that about a half of spiral galaxies (including our Milky Way) have a similar structure. The spiral arms of NGC 5921 stretch out of the bar, studded densely with clusters of young stars.

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Temperatures on Neptune Are Fluctuating Unexpectedly

Astronomers have been monitoring the temperature of Neptune for 17 years and found that it suddenly dropped and then rose sharply near the south pole. Scientists do not yet know the reason for that.

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Astronomers Discover a New Type of Nebula

An international team of astronomers has discovered a new type of nebula around binary stars, a system of two gravitationally bound stars orbiting in closed orbits around a common center.

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Astronomers Discover the Most Distant Galaxy Ever Found

HD1 is 100 million light-years farther from Earth than the previous record-breaking galaxy GN-z11. According to preliminary calculations, HD1 produces about a hundred stars each year, which is ten times more than expected from a galaxy of this type.

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Astronomers Reveal an Image of Mysterious Odd Radio Circles

Astronomers hope that the unique image will help them understand the nature of odd radio circles and prove one of their origin's theories.

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Scientists Suggest Sending Astronauts to Mars Using Lasers

Scientists from McGill University in Canada have invented the concept of the laser catapult, which will help astronauts get to Mars in just 45 days. However, scientists do not yet know how to slow the spacecraft down once it arrives at its destination.

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NASA Confirms the Existence of Over 5,000 Exoplanets

More specifically, the agency's exoplanet archive now documents 5,005 exoplanets, each with its own unique characteristics. The latest batch of exoplanets was discovered on March 21.

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Scientists Tracked Down a Fallen Meteorite Using Drones and Machine Learning

The resulting images were analyzed by a machine-learning algorithm that can detect unusual objects lying on the ground. It identified the supposed location where the fragments of the meteorite fell. At that spot, scientists found a 70-gram meteorite.

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Astronomers Discover the Largest Known Galaxy in the Universe

This cluster of stars that orbit a supermassive black hole is located three billion light-years from Earth and stretches at least 16.3 million light-years through space.

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Astronomers Discover a Mysterious Spinning Object in the Milky Way

The scientists established that the object is about four thousand light years from Earth. So far, astronomers can only say that it is incredibly bright and has an extremely strong magnetic field.

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The Universe Could Contain 40 Billion Billions of Black Holes

Scientists at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste (SISSA) have found that there are 40 billion billions (i.e., 4 followed by 19 zeros) stellar-mass black holes in the universe.

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Scientists Detect Up to 170 New Rogue Planets Wandering our Galaxy

If a planet is young and hot, its own residual heat helps find it. That's how scientists found the new rogue planets this time after analyzing 80,000 images taken over the past 20 years of astronomical observations.