Six billion tonnes a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our Solar System, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead. The...

Six billion tonnes a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate | ESO www.eso.org/public/news/...

"Big surprise": astronomers find planet in perpendicular orbit around pair of stars Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these ‘polar planets’ orbiting...

"Big surprise": astronomers find planet in perpendicular orbit around pair of stars | ESO www.eso.org/public/news/...

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Star cluster reveals its colours in stunning 80-million-pixel ESO image The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO’s Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA),…

Star cluster reveals its colours in stunning 80-million-pixel ESO image │ ESO

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The Balance of Gravity | by Brian Koberlein Polarization observations of merging black holes tests whether gravity obeys symmetry.

The Balance of Gravity | by Brian Koberlein

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A Dragon Full of Stars | by Brian Koberlein More than 40 gravitationally lensed stars can be seen in a distant galaxy thanks to gravitational lensing

A Dragon Full of Stars | by Brian Koberlein

Timescape | by Brian Koberlein The Universe is expanding, but a new paper argues the cause is not dark energy.

Timescape | by Brian Koberlein

Picure of a foggy river with some svans at sunrise.

#sunrise over the river Glomma with some svans.
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Picture of a tree and a lake at sunset in Norway

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Smaller Neutron Stars | by Brian Koberlein https://buff.ly/4gtGYgE

Jet Set Growth | by Brian Koberlein The jets of young supermassive black holes help drive their rapid growth.

Jet Set Growth | by Brian Koberlein

World-first direct 5G connection to low Earth orbit satellite opens new era for mobile coverage In a world first, ESA and Telesat have successfully connected a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite to the ground using 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) technology in the Ka-band frequency range, marking…

World-first direct 5G connection to low Earth orbit satellite opens new era for mobile coverage │ ESA

Ancestral Masses | by Brian Koberlein Black hole mergers may reveal the genealogy of black holes.

Ancestral Masses | by Brian Koberlein

First ever binary star found near our galaxy’s supermassive black hole An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been…

First ever binary star found near our galaxy’s supermassive black hole │ ESO

Firefly Sparkle | by Brian Koberlein Astronomers weigh a small galaxy from when the Universe was just 600 million years old.

Firefly Sparkle | by Brian Koberlein

Gotta Lava It | by Brian Koberlein Lava on young Earth drove the Moon farther away. Similar effects may occur on lava exoplanets.

Gotta Lava It | by Brian Koberlein

AI-powered satellite data reveals clouds in 3D https://buff.ly/4fceQNq

Modified Energy, Modified Gravity | by Brian Koberlein https://buff.ly/49ucW9V

Five space mysteries Proba-3 will help solve ESA’s Proba-3 will be the first mission to create an artificial total solar eclipse by flying a pair of satellites 150 metres apart. For six hours at a time, it will be able to see the Sun’s faint…

Five space mysteries Proba-3 will help solve | ESA

What Lies Beneath | by Brian Koberlein The interiors of Uranus and Neptune may explain their unusual magnetic fields.

What Lies Beneath | by Brian Koberlein

European Union funds the conceptual study of the Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope - ICRAR UWA is co-lead of the WST survey design package that will define what the facility will observe during its first few years.

European Union funds the conceptual study of the Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope - ICRAR

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How climate change is altering the Earth's rotation For the first time, researchers at ETH Zurich have been able to fully explain the various causes of long-term polar motion in the most comprehensive modeling to date, using AI methods. Their model and...

For the first time, researchers at ETH Zurich have been able to fully explain the various causes of long-term polar motion in the most comprehensive modeling to date, using AI methods.
phys.org/news/2024-07...

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AI and Physics Combine to Reveal the 3D Structure of a Flare Erupting Around a Black Hole - www.caltech.edu