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New research finds that two massive, hot stars swept past the Sun about 4.4 million years ago, blasting nearby gas clouds with radiation and leaving a lasting imprint on the space surrounding your solar system.
Study shows two hot stars passed close to the Sun, ionizing local gas clouds and shaping Earth’s cosmic environment.
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Artist's view of WASP-107b. The planet’s low density and the intense irradiation from its star allow helium to escape the planet and form an asymmetric, extended, and diffuse envelope around it. Infrared observations with the JWST satellite have enabled the observation of this phenomenon.
SpaceJWST observations reveal massive helium clouds escaping from exoplanet WASP-107 bJoseph Shavit
An international team of researchers used the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and XRISM, a JAXA-led mission with ESA participation, to uncover and study a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. The gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out into space at eye-watering speeds of 60 000 km per second.
SpaceAstronomers watch a supermassive black hole X-ray flare ignite an ultra-fast galactic windJoseph Shavit
Hubble imaged a record-size protoplanetary disk with one-sided filaments and turbulent “wisps,” reshaping ideas of planet formation.
SpaceDracula’s Chivito: Hubble reveals the largest known planet-forming diskJoshua Shavit
Laboratory tests show that small amounts of silicon and carbon mixed with iron may explain why seismic waves travel unevenly through Earth’s inner core.
SpaceScientists discover onion-like layering in Earth’s inner coreJoseph Shavit
Artistic impression of the Electrostatic Tractor during an Earth encounter.
SpaceScientists build an electrostatic ‘tractor beam’ to move space junk safelyShy Cohen
An artist’s rendering shows the rare galaxy system J1219+1035, where three galaxies are in the process of merging. At their cores sit three actively feeding, radio-bright supermassive black holes, with powerful jets illuminating the gas around them.
SpaceThree black holes light up at once in rare three-galaxy collisionJoseph Shavit
New analysis of Juno data reveals Europa’s ice shell may be up to 39 kilometers thick, reshaping views of its hidden ocean.
SpaceNASA’s Juno spacecraft offers fresh insight into Europa’s icy ocean and its potential to support lifeJoseph Shavit
Graphic representation of Earth’s shell structure showing the super-heated metallic inner core in the centre, followed by the solid outer core, the rocky mantle and the thin crust towards the surface. New research from the University of Göttingen demonstrates that some precious metal-rich material from the core is leaking into the Earth’s mantle above.
SpaceEarth’s core is leaking vast amounts of gold through the mantle, study findsJoshua Shavit
An artist's illustration of the view from a Kuiper Belt object.
SpaceAstronomers discover previously unseen kernel structure inside the Kuiper BeltJoseph Shavit
New models of planetary atmospheres and stellar radiation suggest that worlds capable of supporting intelligent life may be far rarer than once believed.
SpaceIntelligent life may be far more rare than scientists previously thoughtJoseph Shavit
This artist’s concept shows what the exoplanet PSR J2322-2650b may look like. Gravitational forces from the much heavier pulsar it orbits are pulling the Jupiter-mass world into this bizarre lemon shape.
SpaceJWST spots a lemon-shaped exoplanet orbiting a pulsar — rewriting the rules of planet formationJoseph Shavit
Russia’s Energia Space Rocket Corporation has patented a modular spacecraft that uses rotation to generate artificial gravity, a step that could reshape long-duration human spaceflight.
SpaceRussia patents a modular spacecraft designed to create artificial gravityJoshua Shavit
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope identified the source of a super bright flash of light known as a gamma-ray burst: a supernova that exploded when the Universe was only 730 million years old.
DiscoveriesJWST detected a supernova from the dawn of the universeJoseph Shavit
This artist’s concept shows the violent collision of two massive objects in orbit around the star Fomalhaut. “Spotting a new light source in the dust belt around a star was surprising. We did not expect that at all,” said Northwestern’s Jason Wang.
SpaceTwo collisions, one star, and a new view of planet formationJoseph Shavit
The newly identified spiral galaxy Alaknanda, shown in the inset, appears in shorter-wavelength observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. Bright foreground galaxies from the Abell 2744 cluster are also visible in the same field.
SpaceAlaknanda: Ancient spiral galaxy challenges existing knowledge of cosmic evolutionJoseph Shavit
Dust clouds reflect starlight around the star R Doradus.
SpaceNearby red giant challenges how stars spread the building blocks of lifeJoseph Shavit