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JWST Spies a Giant Space Hamburger—and Maybe Planetary Origins, Too
It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...
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Fastest exoplanet ever is dragged through space at 1.2 million mph by hypervelocity star
Astronomers have discovered what seems to be a star racing through the Milky Way at 1.2 million mph, dragging a Neptune-sized ...
Chunks of Alpha Centauri—Our Closest Stellar Neighbor—Might Have Already Reached Us
A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...
10 stunning images of 4 giant outer planets by NASA
NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.
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Temperamental stars could be ruining our view of thousands of exoplanets, Hubble Telescope finds
Using 20 years of data from the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that turbulent stars could be corrupting ...
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Hot and Cold Spots on Stars Lead to Misinterpretations of Exoplanets
How does a star’s activity influence exoplanet data obtained by scientists? This is what a recent study published in The ...
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Temperamental stars may be confusing our view of alien worlds
A new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers suggests that unpredictable stars could be distorting our ...
NASA telescope reveals 'temperamental' stars are ruining our view of far away planets
Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope is a joint ESA/NASA project. It has become one of the most important science ...
'Temperamental' stars may be distorting exoplanet observations
"Temperamental" stars that brighten and dim over a matter of hours or days may be distorting our view of thousands of distant ...