What can exoplanets orbiting M-dwarf stars teach scientists about planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study submitted to the American Astronomical Society journals hopes to address as a team of researchers…
Category: 9. Sci-Tech
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Two dwarf galaxies linked by an ‘astonishingly’ long gas bridge
Two small, misshapen galaxies are wandering together on the outskirts of the Virgo Cluster, a huge city of galaxies. Astronomers have been watching this galaxy pair, NGC 4532 and DDO 137, for years because their gas looks messy and…
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Motion Of Planet-Forming Spirals Captured On Video
ALMA observations of the spiral patterns in the disk around the young star IM Lup. (Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Tomohiro Yoshida et al.) Download image（3.6MB）
The Atacama Large…
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Amateur Astronomers Help Track Asteroid To French Impact Site
With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth’s atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information about how these space rocks disintegrate.
The…
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185,000-Light-Year-Long Bridge of Neutral Hydrogen Gas Connects Two Dwarf Galaxies
As part of the Widefield ASKAP L-band Legacy All-sky Survey (WALLABY), an international team of astronomers has observed the dwarf galaxy pair NGC 4532 / DDO 137 (WALLABY J123424+062511), which is located around 53 million light-years from…
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Scientists weigh nuking asteroid that could slam into moon in 2032
Scientists are evaluating whether a nuclear strike could be the last line of defense against an asteroid that might collide with the moon in 2032.
The object, known as 2024 YR4, was discovered in December 2024 and quickly gained attention…
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Crocodile-eating apex dinosaur reveals missing link in predator evolution
A fossil from the blustery plains of Patagonia is revising your book on one of the most elusive bands of hunting dinosaurs. The newly discovered dinosaur, Joaquinraptor casali, preyed on the soggy floodplains in Argentina about 67 million years…
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Scientists propose plan to nuke asteroid to eliminate threat to moon
A group of scientists including some NASA researchers have proposed a plan to send nuclear explosives to destroy asteroid 2024 YR4. Space Beat host Rob Landers and space trends reporter Eric Lagatta discuss the plan and potential issues on this…
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NASA sets February launch for first crewed lunar mission in 50 years
The last time a human has traveled beyond low Earth orbit came aboard the final Apollo mission over 50 years ago.
And it’s been eight years since NASA debuted Artemis, the U.S. space agency’s program aiming to lift astronauts not only beyond…
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World’s largest quantum array hits 6,100 qubits at 99.98% accuracy
Quantum computers need vast numbers of qubits to solve the hardest problems in science and technology. Unlike classical bits, qubits can exist in two states at once, a property called superposition.
This allows powerful new kinds of…
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