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Nine flybys and six billion miles: ESA shares thrilling footage from BepiColombo's eight-year voyage
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (558+ words) starlust.org Nine flybys and six billion miles: ESA shares thrilling footage from BepiColombo's eight-year voyage The BepiColombo entered its tricky 'Mercury arrival phase' just last week after eight long years of interplanetary journey. So far, it has completed nine…...
Could the Moon be hiding signs of ancient alien technology? SETI scientist proposes how we might find them
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (671+ words) starlust.org Could the Moon be hiding signs of ancient alien technology? SETI scientist proposes how we might find them Researchers have argued that rather than peering at objects light-years away from Earth, signs of ancient extraterrestrial civilizations may be…...
Did Venus once have a moon? Scientists think the planet may have destroyed it
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (460+ words) starlust.org Did Venus once have a moon? Scientists think the planet may have destroyed it Earth and Venus are considered twins because of their similar size, mass, and even rocky composition. But one of the things that sets them…...
NASA's Hubble images 'superbubble' in Milky Way satellite galaxy—and it's helping study how stars are born
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (565+ words) starlust.org NASA's Hubble images 'superbubble' in Milky Way satellite galaxy—and it's helping study how stars are born NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking image of a nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud—one of the dwarf…...
Source of gravitational waves from a black hole merger weighing 230 suns may have been an illusion
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (441+ words) starlust.org Source of gravitational waves from a black hole merger weighing 230 suns may have been an illusion Scientists have come up with an explanation for why a particular source of gravitational waves was as atypical as it was—so…...
Strange repeating radio signal from deep space case finally cracked; Here's what it is
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (470+ words) For years, scientists tracked a strange radio signal that came from somewhere in space every two hours. The location of this signal was expected to be the Big Dipper, and it was first spotted in the archival data. But astronomers…...
Could future telescopes reveal oceans on distant Earth-like planets? What latest research says
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (309+ words) The search for alien life and extraterrestrial civilizations has long sparked curiosity about what might exist in the universe. With every new study, scientists are finding clues that could bring them a little closer to answering a question they have…...
NASA's James Webb captured a stellar nursery like the one that birthed our Sun
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (219+ words) NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex, the closest star-forming region to Earth, about 390 light-years away. The image, released July 12, 2023, showed roughly 50 young stars, several with the telltale shadow of a circumstellar disk — the material that…...
MOONS achieves first light: ESO's new instrument opens a new window into the Milky Way
5+ day, 6+ min ago (359+ words) Michele Cirasuolo, the MOONS Principal Investigator, said watching first light happen was an emotional moment after years of work by the team. He said the instrument will let astronomers study stars and galaxies going back more than 13 billion years. While…...
What happens when a star dies? New research gets closer to an answer
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (207+ words) The matter that makes up you and all that we see in the universe was actually made inside stars a very, very long time ago. Explaining this, NASA shared, "These were all part of stars that existed well before our…...