51 Pegasi – a Sun-like Star
51 Pegasi is a Sun-like star in the constellation Pegasus, 50.45 light-years (15.47 parsecs) from Earth. It is a fifth-magnitude star 48 light-years from Earth…
Astronomy
47 Ursae Majoris b – an Extrasolar Planet
47 Ursae Majoris b is a gas planet and extrasolar planet located in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 46 light-years from Earth. It’s an exoplanet…
Perseverance Found Some Unexpected Trash on Mars
Humanity seems to have a habit of leaving rubbish behind wherever we go. Garbage may be found all the way from the Mariana Trench to…
Martian Meteorite Throws into Question Theories of How Rocky Planets Form
Although the isotope ratio of a lesser-known gas in a single meteorite may not appear to be significant, scientists are now questioning how planets like…
Shortly After the Apollo 11 Moon Landings, Scientists Fed Moon Dust to Cockroaches
Today is your fortunate day if you’ve ever gazed at a Moon rock and thought to yourself, “Yeah, it’s really nice, but I wish it…
47 Ursae Majoris – a Yellow Dwarf Star
47 Ursae Majoris is a yellow dwarf star located in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 46 light-years from Earth. It is 45.9 light-years away from…
Astronomers Think They Have Found the First Free-Floating Black Hole
Astronomers have discovered a large number of black holes, both in other galaxies and in our own, and have even photographed two of them. While…
Wandering Star Has Stellar Nursery’s Magnetic Field in a Twist
Astronomers began looking for the source of a profoundly distorted magnetic field within a stellar nursery. They believe they’ve discovered it in a star that…
Strange “Starquakes” And Details of 1.5 Billion Stars Revealed In Most Detailed Map of the Milky Way
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) is building the most precise map of our galaxy, the Milky Way, ever created. It gave…
14 Herculis – a K-type main-sequence star
14 Herculis is the Flamsteed designation for a K-type main-sequence star in the constellation Hercules located approximately 58.5 light-years away. It is approximately 59.2 light-years…
Fastest Nova Ever Recorded Spotted By Astronomers
A nova is a brilliant explosion that occurs when a white dwarf steals material from its partner in a binary star system. The material is…
China’s Chang’E-5 Confirm Water on the Moon – And It Comes from the Lunar Interior
On the Moon, there is water. It is not flowing as it does on Earth, but it is still present, frozen in ice deep within…
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