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msn.com | Keith Cooper
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space.com | Keith Cooper
A secret population of hidden galaxies suffusing the universe in a soft glow of far-infrared light have been strongly suggested to exist, based on careful detective work into some of the most unique data to come from Europe's Herschel Space Observatory. The galaxies, if they are real, are not necessarily a surprise.
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space.com | Keith Cooper
A machine-learning algorithm trained on synthetic planetary systems has been let loose — and in the process has identified nearly four dozen real stars that have a high probability of hosting a rocky planet in their habitable zone. "The model identified 44 systems that are highly likely to harbor undetected Earth-like planets," said Jeanne Davoult, an astronomer at the German Aerospace Agency DLR, in a .
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flipboard.com | Keith Cooper
1 day agoA new machine learning model has predicted that there are 44 Earth-like planets in other star systems in the Milky Way galaxy, with researchers from Switzerland claiming that the algorithm at the core of the model is 99% accurate. Key Facts Researchers at the University of Bern and the National …
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space.com | Keith Cooper
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic collision between a star and its planet, but whereas astronomers had originally thought that the star was a red giant that engulfed the planet, the JWST has found a very different story: The planet crashed into the star. In 2020, the Zwicky Transient Facility at Palomar Observatory in California spotted a distant star — that sits about 12,000 light-years away from us — suddenly brighten in the night sky.
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space.com | Keith Cooper
There's less water in the mantle beneath the farside of the moon than in the mantle on the nearside, according to studies of the precious lunar samples brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e 6 mission. Furthermore, the findings bolster the theory that the moon formed when a giant, Mars-size protoplanet slammed into the young Earth about 4.5 billion years ago and sent a cascade of debris into orbit that coalesced into the powdery gray orb we see today.
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msn.com | Keith Cooper
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space.com | Keith Cooper
A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be able to tell us how common life is in the universe — even if the mission doesn't find any life at all. "A simple positive detection would change everything," said astronomer Daniel Angerhausen of ETH Zurich in Switzerland in a statement.
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livescience.com | Keith Cooper
The pieces of a meteorite that fell in Costa Rica in 2019 are so unusual that scientists believe it had moved through space relatively unscathed — that is, until it encountered our planet. This is in stark contrast to other typical meteorites that show the wounds of having been in numerous collisions before reaching Earth. The meteorites were recovered from near the Costa Rican town of Aguas Zarcas, and are of a type referred to as 'mudballs', in the sense that they contain water-rich minerals.
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yahoo.com | Keith Cooper
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Amogh JadhavIf all goes to plan, scientists may someday begin building outposts on the moon — and some experts believe that these outposts could be constructed with bricks made out of lunar regolith. And now, a new study based on lunar regolith simulant experiments suggests that if these moon-dust bricks crack, bacteria could be used to seal them back up.
