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NASA’s SPHEREx telescope shows brown dwarfs have atmospheres similar to our solar system giants
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Oct. 9, 1873: The birth of Karl Schwarzschild
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (182+ words) Today in the history of astronomy, the man who lays the foundation for our understanding of black holes is born. Karl Schwarzschild was born Oct. 9, 1873 – just one day after his famous collaborator Ejnar Hertzsprung – and grew up in a Jewish…...
For the first time, a potentially habitable rocky planet shows signs of an atmosphere
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Webb Telescope Finds Evidence of Mars-Sized Planets Colliding Around Young Stars
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (828+ words) The scenario may ring a bell. Scientists believe the early Earth was struck by a Mars-sized body known as Theia. That collision probably vaporized vast quantities of rock and hurled material into space, and some of that debris eventually came…...
Astronomers Discover a “Universal” Trigger for Black Hole Jets
15+ hour, 57+ min ago (1153+ words) Rare stellar deaths have given astronomers a new clue to when supermassive black holes suddenly produce jets. Black holes separated by millions of times in mass may follow the same rule when they launch powerful jets into space. The research,…...
The Last Form Is No Form: Trace Energy, Black Holes, and Allness
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The formation of merging black holes via stable mass transfer in massive binary stars
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (1647+ words) Nature Astronomy (2026) Cite this article Abac, A. G. et al. GWTC-4.0: an Introduction to version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog. Astrophys. J. Lett. 995, L18 (2025). Abac, A. G. et al. Gwtc-4.0: updating the gravitational-wave transient catalog with observations from the first part of the fourth LIGO–Virgo…...
Microsatellite Constellation Design for Global Mars Observation
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (519+ words) Imaging of Mars allows for the study of its geology and climate, the detection of traces of past water and potential conditions conducive to life, and the selection of safe landing sites for future missions. At the same time, the…...
Astronomers discover a potentially habitable planet with temperatures similar to Earth's
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