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A trio of astronomers with the University of Tokyo and Niigata University has discovered a possible new class of interstellar ...
New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri system, may already reside in the Oort Cloud, far from sight.
This HII region is seen to coexist with the reflection nebula, sharing the same stellar centre, and is created from the star ...
In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period ...
Mercury, the first planet from the sun, is about to stand out among the stars this week. But this brightness is not expected ...
Next the scientists assembled a dataset covering 17 distinct molecular clouds associated with massive young stellar objects. While coordinating this data from multiple programs can be challenging ...
Artistic illustration showing the radio pulses emitted by the binary star system: a white dwarf in orbit around a red dwarf. Credit Daniëlle Futselaar/artsource.nl In a breakthrough discovery, an ...