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Furious Stellar Winds From Their Dying Stars
Planetary Shields Will Buckle Under Furious Stellar Winds From Their Dying Stars – Nearly Impossible for Life To Survive Any life identified on planets orbiting white dwarf stars almost certainly…
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A Bug’s Life: Mountains on Neutron Stars May Be Only Fractions of Millimeters Tall
Photo: Artist’s depiction of a neutron star. Credit: ESO / L. Calçada New models of neutron stars show that their tallest mountains may be only fractions of millimeters high, due…
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SuperBIT: A Low-Cost Telescope
A SuperBIT optical and ultraviolet composite image of the ‘Pillars of Creation’, trunks of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years away in the direction of the…
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Mysterious Population of Rogue Planets Spotted Near the Center of Our Galaxy
Artist’s impression of a free-floating planet. Tantalizing evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of “rogue” (or “free-floating”) planets, planets that may be alone in deep space, unbound to…
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Habitable Planets With Earth-Like Biospheres May Be Much Rarer Than Thought
A new analysis of known exoplanets has revealed that Earth-like conditions on potentially habitable planets may be much rarer than previously thought. The work focuses on the conditions required for…