Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and asteroids born elsewhere in the galaxy that zip by the sun as they drift through the Milky Way. They’re not so much visiting as just passing through. Though these objects were speculated to exist for a long time, we didn’t …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link Astronomers have observed what they believe to be a never-before-seen companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, a pulsating red supergiant star in the shoulder of the Orion constellation. One of the best known and most luminous stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse has long intrigued anyone who has gazed up and seen its reddish tint, which is visible …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link Astronomers have observed what they believe to be a never-before-seen companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, a pulsating red supergiant star in the shoulder of the Orion constellation. One of the best known and most luminous stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse has long intrigued anyone who has gazed up and seen its reddish tint, which is visible …
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Astronomers have detected a variety of complex organic molecules (COMs) in the protoplanetary disk surrounding a young star, offering compelling new clues about the chemical roots of life. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team led by Abubakar Fadul of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) identified 17 complex compounds in the disk of V883 Orionis. Organic …
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IN A NUTSHELL 🔭 Astronomers have confirmed the existence of Betelgeuse’s long-speculated companion star using the advanced ‘Alopeke instrument. 🌟 The companion star is a hot blue-white star with a mass about 1.5 times that of the sun, orbiting within Betelgeuse’s extended atmosphere. 💡 The discovery explains Betelgeuse’s regular six-year dimming cycle, previously a long-standing mystery in the astronomical community. …
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A newly discovered exoplanet may offer astronomers a rare look at how planetary evolution unfolds, revealing the processes that transform young, hydrogen-rich worlds into either gas-shrouded mini-Neptunes or dense rocky super-Earths. The planet, named V1298 Tau b, appears to occupy a “missing link” stage of planetary development, according to new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations. A Proto-Sub-Neptune With Uncertain …
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Finding an exoplanet in a star’s habitable zone always generates interest. Each of these planets has a chance, even if it’s an infinitesimal one, of hosting simple life. While the possibility of detecting life on these distant planets is remote, finding them still teaches us about exoplanet populations and solar system architectures. When TESS found three planets orbiting the M-dwarf …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is currently zooming beyond the reach of telescopes on its orbit around the sun. But as scientists wait for it to reappear, its revised …
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“We Were Never Supposed to See This”: Astronomer’s Shocking Claim About 200-Light-Year-Wide Structure Feeding the Milky Way’s Core Rude Baguette This 200-light-year-wide structure could be feeding our galaxy’s center: ‘No one had any idea this cloud existed’ Space A hidden molecular cloud near our Milky Way’s center EarthSky Astronomers find giant hidden molecular cloud fueling star birth in Milky Way Phys.org A giant molecular …
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