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Topic: Space (page 5)

An artist's impression of exoplanet WASP-69b orbiting its host star. (Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck Observatory)

"Hot Jupiter" has a massive tail

In this handout provided by NASA, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the Psyche spacecraft onboard is launched from Launch Complex 39A, October 13, 2023 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Aubrey Gemignani/NASA via Getty Images)

Space missions slated for launch in 2024

Ali M. Bramson - The Conversation

This artist's concept shows what the exoplanet WASP-17 b could look like. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI))

Potential alien planets spotted in 2023

Visualization of a binary star experiencing mass transfer. (Institute of Science and Technology Austria/Ylva Götberg)

"Bluest of blue" stars discovered

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Gravitation waves, 3D illustration (Getty Images/andreusK)

Hunting for sources of gravitational hum

Black hole (Getty Images/Petrovich9)

How to juice energy from a black hole

Astronaut James H Newman and Carl E Waltz, mission specialists, practice space walking techniques and evaluate tools to be used on the first Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission scheduled for later in the year, 16th September 1993. (Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

On almost breaking the Hubble telescope

Artistic rendering of the possible view from LHS 3154b towards its low mass host star. Given its large mass, LHS 3154b probably has a Neptune-like composition. (Penn State, CC BY-NC-ND)

Planet discovered is too big for its sun

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Black hole, dark matter, periodic table of elements (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dark matter's invisible perioidic table

Artist’s impression composed of a star with a disc around it (a Be “vampire” star; foreground) and its companion star that has been stripped of its outer parts (background). (ESO/L. Calçada)

These bright blue stars form threesomes

Mars habitat landscape (Getty Images/CoreyFord)

Are we ready to head to Mars? Maybe not

Christie Aschwanden - Undark

The artist's conception shows a hypothetical planet with two moons orbiting in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star. (NASA/D. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

A new target in search for alien life

Elizabeth Hlavinka

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The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia))

James Webb reveals new Milky Way details

Artist concept of the Milky Way (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

New studies on how galaxies form spirals

Comet (Getty Images/Ricardo Filipe/500px)

"Devil comet" to swing by Earth in 2024

Astronaut Gui Haichao is out of the return capsule of the Shenzhou-16 manned spaceship at the Dongfeng landing site on October 31, 2023 in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. (Wang Xiaobo/VCG via Getty Images)

Chinese astronauts return after 6 months

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Engineer working on checking equipment in solar power plant with galaxies in the background (Getty Images/Pramote Polyamate)

Coming soon: Solar panel space farms

Planet Earth with a pile of garbage spilling into outer space (Getty Images/urfinguss)

The "enshittification" of tech in space

This artist’s impression (not to scale) illustrates the path of the fast radio burst FRB 20220610A, from the distant galaxy where it originated all the way to Earth, in one of the Milky Way’s spiral arms. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Astronomers found a distant radio burst

The supermoon rises behind clouds above an apartment block on April 07, 2020 in Manchester, United Kingdom. (Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Moon 40 million years older: analysis

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Illustration of a coronal mass ejection impacting the Earth s atmosphere. These events, CMEs for short, are powerful releases of solar charged particles (plasma) and magnetic field, travelling on the solar wind. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Solar storms could cause major damage

The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of color in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Joseph DePasquale, Anton M. Koekemoer, Alyssa Pagan)

Listen to the sounds of the universe

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Galactic trash orbiting Earth (Getty Images/janiecbros)

The place where satellites go to die

Elizabeth Hlavinka

Image shows a visualisation of the huge, glowing planetary body produced by a planetary collision. (Mark Garlick)

Astronomers see post-planetary collision

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