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Space.com

A new unpublished study is making waves on the internet by claiming that one of the brightest stars in the night sky might die in a spectacular explosion within our lifetime. The study, currently available on the online pre-print serverarXiv, …

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The telescope traced an incredibly bright gamma-ray burst to a kilonova, a dramatic event believed to forge heavy elements like gold. Comments (0). An illustration of two neutron stars colliding and merging. An illustration of two neutron stars …

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Stellar-mass black holes could meet and merge in the violent and turbulent environments around their supermassive ‘big brothers.’ Comments (0). two small, bright dots representing merging black holes come together surrounding by a red swirl.

Maui Now

On June 7, 2023, the first day of Kīlauea’s most recent eruption, Center for the Study of Active Volcanoes International Training Course participants visited Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park to observe the Halemaʻumaʻu lava lake. These participants …

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The first data release from the CEERS survey features a region known as the Extended Groth Strip and sends viewers back to shortly after the Big Bang. Comments (0). A new 3D visualization from the James Webb Space Telescope takes viewers on a journey …

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Look to the western skies to see the Red Planet, Mars, shining steadily above the twinkling blueish star Regulus. Comments (0). July 10, 2023 at 8:50 pm – Mars Meets Regulus, near Venus. (Image credit: Starry Night Software).

Popular Science

It’s no simple feat to send a rover to space, land it on a celestial body, and get the wheels rolling. NASA has used all kinds of techniques: The Pathfinder rover landed on Mars in 1997 inside a cluster of airbags, then rolled down its landing …

Phys.Org

A new analysis shows that there are probably many more Earth-like exoplanets with liquid water than had been thought, significantly increasing the chance of finding life. The work finds that even where the conditions are not ideal for liquid water to …

Phys.Org

A scorching hot world where metal clouds rain drops of titanium is the most reflective planet ever observed outside of our Solar System, astronomers said on Monday. This strange world, which is more than 260 light years from Earth, reflects 80 percent …

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This is when a sharp surge in greenhouse gas concentration, microplastic pollution, invasive species, radioactive traces from atom bomb testing, and a dozen other markers of our species’ growing influence added up to what scientists now call the Great …