Tiny Telescope, Big Discoveries: How ExTrA Hunts for Earth-Like Worlds
Using clever light-detecting techniques, ExTrA searches red dwarf stars for planets that might support life. By studying tiny ...
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Does Our Solar System Actually Have 9 Planets Even After Pluto Was Eliminated?
Does our Solar System have 9 planets or only 8? Astronomers have gone back and forth on that a lot, with Pluto now being classified as a dwarf planet. However, out beyond Neptune there could be ...
The Nullarbor is riddled with wombat and rabbit warrens. Scientists are watching them from space
On the vast expanse of the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia, two very different creatures live side by side—but not always ...
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Ceres’s Organics Might Not Be Homegrown After All
Scientists have been unable to determine whether the dwarf planet’s organics were produced by its own chemical processes or ...
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Quad-Cities Popular Astronomy Club: Planet or not, Pluto is fascinating
In August 2006, the International Astronomical Union made the controversial, but correct, decision to demote Pluto from its ...
JWST Unveils HH 30’s Protoplanetary Disk, Showing Dust Grains and Jets
JWST captures HH 30’s dense disk with bright jets and dust grains Microscopic dust plays a key role in planetary formation in HH 30 High-speed jet activity and spiral structures observed in the disk ...