Fragments of a Planet Seen Getting Destroyed By White Dwarf for First Time
Astronomers have now seen the debris left behind by disintegrating planets entering the atmosphere of a white dwarf, an ancient star’s exposed degenerate core. Researchers…
Astronomy
Gliese 581e – an Extrasolar Planet
Gliese 581e is an extrasolar planet orbiting within the Gliese 581 system, 20.4 light-years from Earth in the Libra constellation. Gliese 581 is a red…
Gliese 581b – an Extrasolar Planet
Gliese 581b, often known as Gl 581b, is an extrasolar planet that orbits within the Gliese 581 system. It is the second in order of…
Youngest Pair of Asteroids in the Solar System Discovered
We’re normally talking about billions of years when we talk about the development of celestial bodies. However, astronomers have identified a binary asteroid system that…
The Second Moon Olympics Nearly Ended In Disaster
In the last minutes of their voyage to the Moon fifty years ago, two astronauts utilized the “Lunar Olympics” to make the normal Olympics look…
55 Cancri – a Binary Star System
55 Cancri is a binary star system 41 light-years from the Sun in the Cancer zodiac constellation. It has the same mass as our Sun…
55 Cancri e – an Exoplanet
55 Cancri e is an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like host star 55 Cancri A. It’s also known as Janssen, and it’s only 41 light-years distant…
First Truly Isolated Black Hole Discovered In the Milky Way
In our galaxy, there should be 100 million black holes, the most majority of which have masses equivalent to the Sun. However, because no light…
NASA Reveals Plan to Crash ISS into the Pacific Ocean
After its mission was extended to 2030, the International Space Station (ISS) will continue to operate for the rest of this decade. NASA has stated…
Gliese 436 – a Red Dwarf
Gliese 436 is a red dwarf located approximately 31.8 light-years (9.7 parsecs) distant in the zodiac constellation of Leo. It is a somewhat dim main…
Cosmic Cartographers Reveal the Diversity of Star-Forming Galaxies by Mapping the Nearby Universe
The first census of molecular clouds in the surrounding Universe has been conducted by a team of astronomers utilizing the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA),…
Clues to the Formation of Our Solar System from a Nearby Star-Forming Region
Astronomers are learning more about the conditions under which our solar system was formed thanks to an active star formation zone in the constellation Ophiuchus.…
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