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A team of international scientists working together made a recent astonishing discovery that could help us understand the evolutionary outcome of our own planet

NASA finds Earth-like planet that's the closest to us and may be habitable to humans

A newly discovered L subdwarf is on an unusual journey through our galaxy. The Sun is orbiting the Milky Way at 220 kilometers per second, but an even faster star, J1249+36, has been discovered moving at about 600 kilometers per second. Found by the citizen science project Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, this hypervelocity L subdwarf star could potentially leave the Milky Way.

Hypervelocity Star Spotted Racing Through the Milky Way at 1.3 Million MPH

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 Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope has found the two most distant galaxies ever seen, the space agency has said.The two galaxies are the earliest ever seen in the universe, dating back to when the cosmos was just 300 million years old. The record-holding furthest galaxy is not only remarkable for its distance but also for how big and bright it is, experts said – a surprising result that could better help us understand how the universe began.The galaxy, known as JADES-GS-z14-0, appears to be astonishingly bright and 1,600 light-years across. It is so bright that it is thought to...

Nasa finds the most distant galaxy in the known universe

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It's possible our movement through the galaxy may affect our climate.

Encounter Between Sun And "Something Outside The Solar System" May Have Dramatically Cooled Earth

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Images from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory have been combined to reveal how the Crab Nebula's neutron star is changing.

Space photo of the week: James Webb and Chandra telescopes spot a 'lighthouse' pointed at Earth

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Some zodiac signs are just more compatible than others. Zodiac signs are considered to be compatible after looking at their qualities, planetary rulership, and astrological aspects. There are other factors, too, depending on you and your beliefs.

The 2 Most Powerful Zodiac Signs

Around two million years ago, Earth was a very different place, with our early human ancestors living alongside saber-toothed tigers, mastodons, and enormous rodents. And, depending on where they were, they may have been cold: Earth had fallen into a deep freeze, with multiple ice ages coming and going until about 12,000 years ago.

Astrophysicists calculate the likelihood that Earth was exposed to cold harsh interstellar clouds 2 million years ago

(NewsNation) — Don’t blink, or you might miss a bright new star in the sky. It’s been there for eons but is only visible every so often. Like every 80 years. “The Blaze Star” will become visible to the naked eye for the first time since 1946 sometime between now and September, but only for about one week.

Astronomers await the rare ‘Blaze Star’ this summer

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A newly discovered galaxy has just smashed the record for the earliest seen yet, presenting a major challenge to our current models of galaxy formation.
It's called JADES-GS-z14-0, and its brightly gleaming in the early Universe, as it looked less than 300 million years after the  Big Bang. A second recent discovery, called JADES-GS-z14-1, was confirmed to be nearly as distant.



					
			

The detections, astronomers say, are now "unambiguous", which means the Cosmic Dawn might have some 'splainin' to do.
"In January 2024, NIRSpec observed this galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, for almost ten hours, and when the spectrum was first processed, there was unambiguous evidence...

Whoa! Astronomers Just Discovered The Earliest Galaxy We've Ever Seen

A technology demo on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help increase the variety of distant planets scientists can directly image. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help pave the way in the search for habitable worlds outside our solar system by testing new tools that block starlight, revealing planets hidden by the glare of their parent stars. The technology demonstration recently shipped from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California to the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, where it has joined the rest of the space observatory in preparation for launch by May 2027.

How NASA’s Roman Coronagraph Could Change Our View of the Universe

From "runaway" black holes shooting across the cosmos to secret planets in our own backyard, space is overrun with mysterious objects that scientists are clamoring to explain. Here are five of the strangest sights in the universe, as well as their possible origins.

5 space discoveries that scientists are struggling to explain

Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on how life is on Earth? Couldn’t there be totally different kinds of life on other planets? – Henry, age 13, Somerville, Massachusetts. Have you ever played hide-and-seek in a new place? It’s much harder than...

Why do astronomers look for signs of life on other planets based on what life is like on Earth?


Researchers will no longer need to choose between studying a single human brain as a patchwork of fragmented images or a distant, pixelated view of large structures.
A new imaging platform developed by a US team instead seamlessly combines the finer details of brain cells, their connections and contents, with brain-wide maps of whole networks of neurons holding up the brain's overall architecture.



					
			

These elements of brain biology exist on wildly different scales, from the nanometer-sized gaps of synapses to centimeter-long brain regions, which have until now required multiple samples from multiple brains to analyze using various technologies on different platforms.
In its...

Amazing New Technique Images Alzheimer's Brain Changes at Every Level, All at Once

Primordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the universe's missing dark matter. But a new theory suggests that not enough of the miniature black holes formed for this to be the case.

Scientists may have finally solved the problem of the universe’s 'missing' black holes

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Space is full of strange signals, but one unexplainable radio signal has astronomers especially baffled. The signal was first detected by the ASKAP radio telescope in Australia. Designated ASKAP J1935+2148, the signal appears to repeat every 53.8 minutes. As it repeats, it also seems to cycle through three different phases, raising even more questions about the signal.
Based on our current understanding of physics, there’s no logical explanation for why this radio signal is doing what it is doing. Sometimes, it seems to shoot out bright flashes that last between 10 and 50 seconds. These flashes all point in the same...

Unexplainable radio signal has astronomers scratching their heads

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The Plato spacecraft will carry 26 cameras and pack 2 billion pixels –the most ever for a space mission

Does another Earth exist? With 26 cameras and 2,000MP, Plato the planet hunter will find out

For the first time, we have seen the jet produced by a supermassive black hole change color as a smaller black hole orbiting it briefly flared up.

Secondary Supermassive Black Hole In Exceptional Pair Observed Directly For First Time

There are some zodiac signs that you can just imagine will treat you like royalty. That regal touch just comes naturally for them, probably because those signs come from royalty themselves. Understanding the art of generosity, warmth, and kindness can be hard for some but not for these signs. Let’s get into the four graceful zodiac signs that will spoil you with the royal treatment.

4 Zodiac Signs Who Treat You Like Royalty

Astronomers using the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona have taken a close-up picture of Jupiter's volcanic moon Io that rivals similar photos taken from space.

A telescope on Earth just took an unbelievable photo of Jupiter's moon

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By the end of this summer, we may have a good idea as to whether we'll have a bright naked-eye comet gracing our early autumn evening sky, known as C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS).

A comet approaching Earth could become brighter than the stars this fall

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Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole


A feast devoured by a supermassive  black hole a billion light-years from Earth has revealed how fast that black hole spins on its axis.
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Astronomers Just Calculated The Spin Speed of a Supermassive Black Hole

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