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Finally! Astronomers Find the Missing Link Between Stellar and Supermassive...

While black holes are known as the most destructive objects in the universe, their evolution is largely shrouded in mystery. This is because while astronomers are familiar with supermassive black...

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Why is the Sun’s Corona So Hot? One Hypothesis Down, Many to Go

The temperature of the Sun’s corona is a minimum of 100 times hotter than the Sun’s surface, despite the corona being far less dense and extending millions of miles from the Sun’s surface, as well....

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Good Thing We Found this Earth-Sized Planet Now. It’s About to Be Destroyed

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanets with extremely small orbits around their stars. But what about exoplanets that get close enough to be devoured by their star, and what if it’s an...

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Earth-like exoplanets might be in short supply for the Habitable Worlds...

How common are Earth-like exoplanets—also called exo-Earths—and which exoplanetary systems should we target to find them? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as a team of...

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The Big Fringe Telescope. A 2.2 KILOMETER Telescope on the Cheap. And it Can...

Can a kilometer-scale telescope help conduct more efficient science, and specifically for the field of optical interferometry? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as a pair of...

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Coronal Loops-Digital Art Combination Captures Power of the Sun, Rendered by...

Our Sun is one of the most fascinating objects in the universe and photographing it with specialized equipment to capture its splendor and beauty has become increasingly more common around the world....

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Artemis III Landing Sites Identified Using Mapping and Algorithm Techniques

Where would be the most ideal landing site for the Artemis III crew in SpaceX’s Human Landing System (HLS)? This is what a recent study submitted to Acta Astronautica hopes to address as an...

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Artemis Missions Could Put the most Powerful imaging Telescope on the Moon

Ground-based interferometry on Earth has proven to be a successful method for conducting science by combining light from several telescopes into acting like a single large telescope. But how can a...

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Studying Stars from the Lunar Surface with MoonLITE, Courtesy of NASA’s...

Optical interferometry has been a long-proven science method that involves using several separate telescopes to act as one big telescope, thus achieving more accurate data as opposed to each telescope...

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We Don’t See Many Planets in Old Triple Star Systems

Why is it important to search for exoplanets in triple star systems and how many can we find there? This is what a recent study accepted by Astrophysics & Space Science hopes to address as a pair...

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