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New Orleans trumpeter and composer Steve Lands reinterprets Gustav Holst's "The Planets" on his album "Rearranging the ...
Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...
In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...
Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...
A study using the NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other X-ray telescopes has revealed that "an exploded star can pose ...
Astronomers using the European Space Agency's Cheops mission have caught an exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the star it orbits. These tremendous explosions are blasting ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...
Exoplanet HIP 67522 b, fluffed up to the size of Jupiter, circles so close to its star that it’s triggering violent flares — ...
The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...
Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat. The star HIP 67522 is slightly larger than our sun and shines roughly 408 ...
Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...
Learn about new observations that reveal an exoplanet is destroying itself by cuddling up to its host star, in an ...