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Who You Send to the Moon Matters More Than You Think
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Who You Send to the Moon Matters More Than You Think

Universe Today·Mark Thompson·2 days ago
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Building a permanent base on the Moon sounds like an engineering problem. Design the habitat, sort the power supply, figure out life support, and you're most of the way there.…

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ESA Selects Two New Scout-Class Missions
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ESA Selects Two New Scout-Class Missions

Universe Today·David Dickinson·3 days ago
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When it comes to understanding Earth and our changing environment, space is the place. Not only does it give us an overall holistic view of the planet below, but satellite-based imagery can transcend national boundaries and give us an understanding of key…

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The Sun is Changing and We Don’t Know Why
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The Sun is Changing and We Don’t Know Why

Universe Today·Mark Thompson·3 days ago
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The Sun has a heartbeat. Every eleven years it swells with magnetic fury, hurling solar flares and charged particles into space, sparking auroral displays and threatening power grids, all before quietening down again.…

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When the Sun Tries to Explode and Fails
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When the Sun Tries to Explode and Fails

Universe Today·Mark Thompson·3 days ago
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Scientists have captured one of the most detailed observations ever of a failed solar eruption, a powerful blast from the Sun that built into what should have been a billion tonne plasma ejection, then stalled and collapsed back to the surface.…

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Where Are All the Intermediate Mass Black Holes? Microlensing Fast Radio Bursts Might Reveal Them
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Where Are All the Intermediate Mass Black Holes? Microlensing Fast Radio Bursts Might Reveal Them

Universe Today·Evan Gough·3 days ago
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In the heirarchy of black holes, intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) lie in between stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes. But the problem is that we've never found one. There have been hints, but nothing conclusive.…

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Astronomers Observe the Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy in the Early Universe
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Astronomers Observe the Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy in the Early Universe

Universe Today·Matthew Williams·3 days ago
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An international team led by Associate Professor Kimihiko Nakajima of Kanazawa University has captured a rare look at the early universe. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the power of gravitational lensing, the team achieved a definitive…

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Why the Second Full Moon of May is a ‘Blue Minimoon’
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Why the Second Full Moon of May is a ‘Blue Minimoon’

Universe Today·David Dickinson·3 days ago
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There’s nothing like a random celestial coincidence, turned good internet meme. In this case, the chance event is this weekend’s Full Moon, which also happens to be the second Full Moon of May, and is also the most distant and visually smallest Full Moon…

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A Natural Chemistry Laboratory in Protostar Shock Waves
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A Natural Chemistry Laboratory in Protostar Shock Waves

Universe Today·Evan Gough·3 days ago
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Complex organic molecules (COMS) are at the heart of life. They're created where jets from protostars slam into the interstellar medium, environments that scientists call natural laboratories.…

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The Weirdness of Early Universe SMBHs Gets Even Weirder
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The Weirdness of Early Universe SMBHs Gets Even Weirder

Universe Today·Evan Gough·3 days ago
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The JWST has shown us some strange things about supermassive black holes (SMBH) in the early Universe. Many of them are far more massive than we think they should be.…

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Something Just Passed Between Us and a Distant Star.
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Something Just Passed Between Us and a Distant Star.

Universe Today·Mark Thompson·3 days ago
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In December 2019, astronomers detected a one hour brightening of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a classic gravitational microlensing event. These occur when a compact object bends a distant the light of a distant star as it passes in front of it.…

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Astrophysical Calibration Could "Autotune" Gravitational Wave Detection
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Astrophysical Calibration Could "Autotune" Gravitational Wave Detection

Universe Today·Matthew Williams·3 days ago
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The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA (LVK) detector network has a new trick up its sleeve to improve the instruments’ sensitivity to gravitational waves: it’s called Astrophysical Calibration and it plays a role similar to auto-tune in music production.

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Just Like Stars, Open Clusters Can Form Binary Pairs
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Just Like Stars, Open Clusters Can Form Binary Pairs

Universe Today·Evan Gough·3 days ago
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Open star clusters are prevalent stellar structures in the Milky Way. Astronomers think their could be 100,000 of them. But they're not all the same: some are binary clusters, and within those, there's a hierarchy based on how they form.…

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An Orbiting Satellite Triad Reveals Motions Inside Earth
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An Orbiting Satellite Triad Reveals Motions Inside Earth

Universe Today·Carolyn Collins Petersen·3 days ago
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Our planet's liquid iron outer core is slowly giving up its secrets to a trio of satellites launched by ESA in 2013. Called Swarm, the three probes have been studying Earth's magnetic field at the source.…

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The Name N159 Doesn't Do This Brilliant Star-Forming Region Justice
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The Name N159 Doesn't Do This Brilliant Star-Forming Region Justice

Universe Today·Evan Gough·3 days ago
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This ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week captures all the glory of the star-forming region N159. It's in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and is dwarfed by its much larger neighbour, the Tarantula Nebula.…

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