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A Ripple in Spacetime
2+ hour, 6+ min ago (129+ words) Slate On this day in 2015 gravitational waves were detected for the first time by the Advanced LIGO interferometers in Louisiana and Washington state. The waves, predicted by Einstein’s general relativity, are caused by the rippling of spacetime caused by movement…...
Early Sun May Have Devoured A Super-Earth, Scientists Say
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (453+ words) Several planetary systems across the galaxy have "super-Earths", which are rocky worlds slightly larger than our own planet. But our cosmic neighbourhood doesn't have a single one, leaving scientists wondering what the reason is. Now, a new study, published in…...
Look up: The moon and Venus to put on a dazzling show as they appear side by side in the sky
4+ hour, 41+ min ago (404+ words) A lunar occultation of Venus took place on the afternoon of Wednesday, June 17. Stunning timelapse footage by Rob Wright shows the moon disappearing behind the dark side of the crescent moon before reappearing a few instances later. On Monday, Venus…...
Seven mysterious objects hiding inside the Pinwheel Galaxy.
15+ hour, 52+ min ago (25+ words) NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has revealed a completely unexpected population of objects emitting extremely low-energy X-rays, so …...
Venus’s pale yellow clouds may hide something surprisingly dark
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (953+ words) Venus looks pale yellow in ordinary visible light, but the view changes dramatically in ultraviolet wavelengths. There, dark and bright features sweep across the planet's upper sulfuric acid clouds. Scientists have observed these patterns for about a century, yet the…...
A molecular-hydrogen cloud only 300 light-years away spans roughly 40 full-Moon widths across our sky, yet astronomers did not identify it until 2025. Named Eos, it escaped conventional surveys because they search for molecular hydrogen indirectly through carbon monoxide—and almost all of Eos is CO-dark.
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (858+ words) Eos covers about 20 degrees of sky, but almost all its estimated 3,400 solar masses of molecular hydrogen escaped the carbon-monoxide surveys normally used to find such clouds....
The sun may have eaten a missing super-Earth, new study suggests
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (560+ words) Why our solar system missed out on having a super‑Earth, a type of world that teems across the galaxy, has long bugged astronomers. Now, a new study proposes an intriguing explanation: maybe the sun ate it. Earlier work has…...
Venus Moon Would Have Been Doomed From The Start, Says New Paper
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (335+ words) Venus likely never had a moon and even if it did it would have soon been torn asunder by the planet’s own gravity, says prominent planetary astrophysicist....
Frozen object beyond Jupiter is transforming into a comet
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (1029+ words) A frozen object beyond Jupiter is venting carbon dioxide gas into space, revealing what can drive activity so far from the sun. A centaur, one of the icy bodies that orbit beyond Jupiter, has started venting gas into space, even…...