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Deadly “red sky” solar storm from 800 years ago discovered in ancient trees
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Deadly “red sky” solar storm from 800 years ago discovered in ancient trees

ScienceDaily·ScienceDaily·18 days ago
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Researchers in Japan traced a hidden medieval solar storm using ancient tree rings and centuries-old sky observations. The team linked reports of eerie red auroras with spikes of carbon-14 trapped in buried wood, revealing a powerful solar radiation event…

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NASA’s Hubble  reveals a giant chaotic planet nursery unlike anything seen before
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NASA’s Hubble reveals a giant chaotic planet nursery unlike anything seen before

ScienceDaily·ScienceDaily·20 days ago
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Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed “Dracula’s Chivito,” the enormous structure appears turbulent and oddly lopsided, with towering filaments visible on only one side.…

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NASA’s Psyche probe is about to slingshot around Mars at 12,000 mph
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NASA’s Psyche probe is about to slingshot around Mars at 12,000 mph

ScienceDaily·ScienceDaily·21 days ago
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NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is about to pull off a dramatic close flyby of Mars, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to get a powerful gravitational boost on its journey to the mysterious metal-rich asteroid Psyche.…

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NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally pulled a rock out of Mars
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NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally pulled a rock out of Mars

ScienceDaily·ScienceDaily·21 days ago
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NASA’s Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed “Atacama” — the entire chunk ripped loose from the ground and stayed stuck to the rover’s drill.…

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Scientists say Dante’s Inferno described an asteroid impact 500 years before modern science
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Scientists say Dante’s Inferno described an asteroid impact 500 years before modern science

ScienceDaily·ScienceDaily·21 days ago
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Dante’s Inferno may have been far more than a religious epic. New research argues that the 14th-century poet essentially imagined a catastrophic asteroid impact centuries before modern science understood meteors.…

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Webb space telescope finds a giant galaxy that doesn’t spin
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Webb space telescope finds a giant galaxy that doesn’t spin

ScienceDaily·ScienceDaily·24 days ago
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted something that shouldn’t exist—at least not so early in the universe. A massive galaxy, formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang, appears to have no rotation at all, a trait usually…

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This strange planet pair shouldn’t exist, but it does
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This strange planet pair shouldn’t exist, but it does

ScienceDaily·ScienceDaily·24 days ago
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A bizarre planetary pairing 190 light-years away is challenging everything astronomers thought they knew about how worlds form. A “lonely” hot Jupiter — typically found without nearby companions — is sharing its system with a smaller mini-Neptune tucked…

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Webb space telescope reveals a scorching “super-Earth” that looks like Mercury
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Webb space telescope reveals a scorching “super-Earth” that looks like Mercury

ScienceDaily·ScienceDaily·27 days ago
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A scorching, airless world just 48 light-years away is offering scientists a rare glimpse into the geology of distant planets. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers studied LHS 3844 b—a tidally locked “super-Earth” with a permanent dayside hot…

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NASA just took a huge step toward the Moon after Artemis II success
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NASA just took a huge step toward the Moon after Artemis II success

ScienceDaily·ScienceDaily·28 days ago
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Artemis II proved NASA’s deep space systems are ready for the next leap. Orion survived its high-speed return with improved heat shield performance and pinpoint landing accuracy, while the SLS rocket nailed its trajectory.…

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