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“Each crash of the star’s towering tidal waves releases enough energy to disintegrate our entire planet several hundred times over”. Comments (0). An artist’s illustration of two glowing blue stars against the dark background of space, one.

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When Stacey Camp, an anthropology professor at Michigan State University, learned there was a hard, impenetrable surface underground north of campus, she assumed it was just a large rock. But historic maps hinted at something bigger.

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Though our sun frequently blasts out radiation in all directions and at light-like speeds, studying this star requires precise instruments onboard just a handful of spacecraft dedicated to the effort. However, scientists have now identified an …

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Scientists hope the discovery will help them understand atmospheric processes of superhot exoplanets. Comments (0). QAI Publishing/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Brown dwarfs don’t qualify as stars, but they’re also too big to be planets.

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Scientists have discovered that Saturn experiences long-lasting megastorms that persist for centuries and churn up its deep atmosphere. Saturn had previously been considered somewhat calmer than its fellow solar system gas giant Jupiter, which has been …

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The new moon will provide the dark skies skywatchers need to spot some stunning astronomical objects in the Messier catalog this week. The exact moment of August’s new moon occurs at 5:39 a.m. EDT (0939 GMT) on Wednesday (Aug.

Scientific American

Even the mightiest land mammals—mammoths and rhinoceroslike beasts that were up to twice as heavy as the largest elephants alive today—were featherweights compared with the biggest sauropods. From an evolutionary perspective, this singularity …

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Russia’s first lunar lander since 1976 has beamed back its first images from space. The Luna-25 mission lifted off on Aug. 10 atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s far eastern Amur Region, marking the first domestically …

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image: A rendering of a nanovial, a microscopic bowl-shaped container that the scientists used to capture individual cells and their secretions. The dark, donut-shaped object to the right is a cell; the blue-and-yellow objects to the left are secreted …

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This sighting is part of a census that aims to find tons of galactic views Hubble hasn’t set eyes on before. Comments (0). A hazy galaxy hangsin the backdrop of space and the twinklings of surrounding stars and other. This lenticular galaxy, NGC 6684, …