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For the first time, astronomers have succeeded in observing the magnetic field around a young star where planets are thought ...
Smithsonian Magazine13h
Why Auroras Are Suddenly Everywhere All at Once
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5 Destinations Around the World That Glow
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Spacecraft finds a positively enormous planet 12 times Jupiter's mass
Gaia-4b is considered a super-Jupiter planet, a relatively cold gas giant, orbiting its star over 570 Earth-days. That star ...
This giant planet formed in a strange way, scientists find
Astronomers discovered the gas giant planet — dubbed a "hot Jupiter " — in 2016, but have continued to investigate this ...
Light pollution is getting worse, but there is a movement to make our skies dark again
Light pollution is increasing globally, and having a negative impact on wildlife and humans. But the solutions are ...
MahaKumbh 2025: Vedic scholar explains importance of 'cycles in nature'
The Head of Global Transcendental Meditation Organisation and President of Maharishi International University Iowa, US, Tony ...
Bright Planets, Bold Encounters: February’s Sky Comes Alive
A Month of Bright Planets Venus blazes at its brightest for the year after sunset, then Mars and Jupiter to rule the night ...
High-precision spectrograph confirms massive exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star
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MIT Technology Review2d
How the Rubin Observatory will help us understand dark matter and dark energy
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Space.com3d
'Roasting marshmallow' exoplanet is so hot, it rains metal. How did it form?
"The climate of this planet is extreme and nothing like that of Earth. The planet's dayside is so hot that elements typically thought of as 'metal' are vaporized into the atmosphere." ...