Astronomers have been jumping past each other lately. Last week, a group using the Hubble Space Telescope announced they had discovered what it could be. The most distant and oldest star ever seenNicknamed Earendel, which shone 12.9 billion years ago, just 900 million years after the Big Bang. Now, another international group of astronomers say …
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We already knew that Asteroid 130 Elektra was special. Astronomers have discovered that it has two moons before, making it a rare triple asteroid system. Now a third moon may have been found, making it even rarer – the first known quadruple asteroid in the solar system. Electra was first discovered in 1873 while orbiting …
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There seemed to be no Trojan asteroids on Earth either, until astronomers found one in 2010 at the L4 Lagrange point, 60 degrees ahead of Earth. Subsequent searches were futile until Pan-Starrs, an automated sky survey in Hawaii, uncovered the 2020 XL5, an intriguing object that appears to be trapped around L4. However, initial observations …
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What do astronomers eat for breakfast the day their $10 billion telescope is launched into space? nails. “You’ve been working for years and everything is going up in a cloud of smoke,” said Marcia Rieke of the University of Arizona. Dr. Rieke admits her fingers will fly as she prepares for the launch of the …
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Star systems come in all shapes and sizes. Some have many planets, some have larger planets, and some have no planets at all. But a particularly unusual system about 150 light-years from ours has left scientists scratching their heads. astronomers in 2016 discovered two planets It orbits the star HD 3167. They were thought to …
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Our solar system is home to an amazing lunar zoo. the icy ones filled with turbulent oceans, adorned with trenches filled with volcanic oceans raging hellfire. To date, astronomers have discovered 4,438 worlds orbits other stars, and there is no doubt that various moons dance around most of these exoplanets. But stargazers haven’t found anything …
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