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Imagine receiving a powerful message from extraterrestrial life, like in the movie "Contact". While it's a thrilling thought, the truth is that if we ever find signs of life on other worlds, the discovery is more likely to come in...
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Chinese astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) have used spectroscopic data from LAMOST and P200/DBSP and multi-band photometric data from Catalina and Zwicky Transient Facility to discover a binary system containing an extremely low-mass...
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Using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST/Webb), an international team of astronomers has made a remarkable discovery: the first known binary system composed of two Y-type brown dwarfs. This groundbreaking finding was reported in...
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NASA scientists have discovered direct evidence of volcanic activity on Venus for the first time. The discovery was made by studying archival radar images of Venus taken over 30 years ago by NASA's Magellan mission. The images showed a volcanic...
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A new study has revealed that kilonovas – massive cosmic explosions created when neutron stars collide – are spherical, not flattened discs as previously believed. Kilonovas are crucial in our understanding of cosmic evolution as they create heavy elements such as...
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