2 spacecraft captured the waves that can heat and accelerate the solar wind
A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe…
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Scientists find long-sought electric field in Earth’s atmosphere
For the first time, scientists have measured a long-sought global electric field in Earth’s atmosphere. This field, called the ambipolar electric…
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As a dying star is similar to a lava lamp
For the first time, astronomers have seen gas boiling and bubbling on the surface of a distant star. Scientists observed the…
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How to Spot Small Black Holes That Can Pass Through the Solar System
Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom may be careening into the solar system without being noticed. But their…
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Meet Porphyrion, the largest pair of black hole jets ever seen
The opposing fountains of plasma and particles spanning 23 million light-years are the longest pair of black hole jets ever seen….
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Radio waves emanating from Starlink satellites darken the cosmos
While SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are enabling Internet access and mobile communications around the globe, they are also posing a threat to…
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50 years ago, satellites threatened astronomers’ view of the cosmos
Satellites interfere with radio astronomy – Scientific news, October 5, 1974 In the past, satellites and probes launched by NASA and…
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NASA’s Europa mission is a homecoming for a planetary astronomer
Planetary astronomer Bonnie Buratti remembers exactly where she was the first time she heard that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa might host…
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The cataclysmic origin of most of Earth’s meteorites has been found
Most of Earth’s meteorites can be traced back to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter,…
