“Failed star” brown dwarfs may get a second chance to shine by colliding and merging to birth a new star.
Astronomers captured a colorful new portrait of the Triangulum Galaxy, revealing complex clouds of gas in between the galaxy’s 40 billion stars.
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What if the mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ aren’t baby black holes, but rather globular clusters in their messy, glorious formation?
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Did primordial black holes born during the Big Bang swallow the universe’s antimatter, allowing matter to dominate the cosmos?
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We’re just scratching the surface of what the innovative collaboration between human astronomers and AI can unlock.
Extreme exomoons with tidal heating and thick, hydrogen-rich atmospheres may be able to create billions of years of potentially habitable surface conditions.
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Astronomers have found four new moons orbiting Jupiter and 11 new moons around Saturn.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.
A cosmic explosion with an energy equivalent to the output of a billion suns went unnoticed by astronomers until they caught the “echo” of this gamma-ray burst.
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These worlds are among the least dense ever found, and all attempts to probe their atmospheres have been blocked by a mysterious smog.
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