The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects dated to this period are ...
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Water is the essence of life. Every living thing on Earth contains water within it. The Earth is rich with life because it is rich with water. This fundamental connection between water and life is partly due to water's extraordinary ...
Astronomy
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Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects―the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA telescope, the team monitored ...
Astronomy
Sep 26, 2024
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MIT researchers, including several undergraduate students, have discovered three of the oldest stars in the universe, and they happen to live in our own galactic neighborhood.
Astronomy
May 14, 2024
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Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."
Astronomy
Jul 13, 2023
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An international team of researchers has obtained the largest set of detailed observations yet of the oldest stars in the center of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. The Pristine Inner Galaxy Survey (PIGS) team finds that this group ...
Astronomy
Jul 4, 2023
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Astronomers have been gazing at the Triangulum galaxy for centuries. But they've never seen it quite like this.
Astronomy
Jan 11, 2023
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Astronomers have discovered more than 200 distant variable stars known as RR Lyrae stars in the Milky Way's stellar halo. The most distant of these stars is more than a million light years from Earth, almost half the distance ...
Astronomy
Jan 9, 2023
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An international team of researchers working at a research site situated a mile and a half below China's Jinping Mountains, has found via experimentation, a likely explanation for the high concentrations of calcium seen in ...
A team of Canadian astronomers, including experts from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts & Science, have used the James Webb Telescope (JWST) to identify the ...
Astronomy
Nov 2, 2022
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